ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2022 Entry 22nd March 2022: Post 1: Amiga PD - Roberta Smith DTP. Amiga PD - Roberta Smith DTP. It seems that every serious Amiga user that I acquired collections from had their own favourite Public Domain and Shareware supplier. One such PD House is that of Roberta Smith DTP. I have a full disk box full of her disks together with a couple of catalogue disks. Having the catalogues for any Public Domain disk supplier is so very useful. Although the disks carried specific labels for the PD supplier the disks themselves were very often available through a whole raft of various PD houses. I do come across the same disks on any number of other labels. I wouldn't recommend anyone every try to assemble a complete set of an one PD suppliers catalogue of disks. I don't really know how disks were stored at the PD houses, or how they managed the copying process. What I do know from the catalogue lists is that the numbers run easily into their thousands. I have the various volumes of the 17Bit collection and the catalogue is enormous. Roberta Smith did carry a very healthy stock of very good disks and software. I could well see why an Amiga user would focus on the one list. I guess when you have a good relationship with the house and find just what you are looking for you are rarely going to shop around. Disks cost 80 to 90p depending on the numbers you ordered plus the postage and packing. PD stuff can be a bit hit and miss given that you would generally buy on the title description. The catalogue did help and so before buying it was very sensible to arm yourself with a catalogue description. In my time I received a lot of disks that fell well short of the anticipated quality. It was also worth noting that the supplier was simply just that, a supplier of disks. The content of the disks were very much out of their control. Anyhoo... if you are in the mood to start collecting PD disks then I would prepare for a very long hard struggle which you will sadly fail. Nobody really knows the full extent of the portfolio given that the lists grew by the month. What is tremendously sad is that at some point the houses closed and disposed of their stock. I do dread to think what that meant. Here is a selection from the Roberta Smith disk box. And if you read my next blog today you will realise that Roberta isn't the lady on the floppy label. Amiga PD - Roberta Smith DTP.

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