About APDL
Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals.
APDL was the first independent Public Domain and Shareware library for the Acorn Archimedes computer. It was formed just after the first machine appeared in 1987. That's why it doesn't have a fancy name, it was the Archimedes Public Domain Library. Other libraries have come and gone, but APDL is still here. In fact, we've been around so long that even Acorn Computers have vanished and the Archimedes name for their original RISC processor machines is almost forgotten.
During those early years we expanded and took over the three other major libraries, DataStream, Arch Angel and The Datafile.
With the expansion of the internet most of our business is no longer concerned with PD and Shareware. However, our PD CDs contain over 600 Mb of compressed material each, much of it no longer available elsewhere. It would take weeks of browsing to find just a fraction of this on the internet.
We are also the specialists for Acorn format Clip Art. We have more than three Gigabytes of clip art of all types, over 700 floppy discs, all ready-to-use in Acorn format, and we have four 'own brand' Clip Art CDs plus various others.
PD and Shareware are certainly not forgotten but are now only a small part of the service APDL provides. We are a leading (probably the leading) supplier of RAM, hard drives, CD ROM drives and CD writers for RISC OS systems, and produce the best and fastest IDE expansion cards. We also have an extensive and expanding range of software of all types, some distributed under the APDL - ProAction brand and some through the iSV Products label.
In late 1999 APDL took the important step of producing the first ever CD magazine for RISC OS computers, RISC World. No less than three magazines had closed during the preceding years and we felt RISC OS users deserved a wider choice. Unfortunately for various reasons RISC World has now ceased publication but CDs and a DVD containing all the back issues and software are available from the RISC World web site
In 2000 we began a major expansion and acquired the rights to many software titles including most of those owned by RISC Developments. During the following years we purchased many other rights, including the iSV Products range and all the 4th Dimension games, most of which have now been re-issued on compilation CDs. Later we acquired almost the entire catalogue previously owned by Clares, one of the oldest and most respected developers of Acorn software.
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