Versions were also planned for the Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro but Rod Cousens, Quicksilva's managing director, was unable to secure enough games from publishers.

[4] The compilation raised over £360,000 for the Band Aid Trust[2] and in 1986 CRASH magazine reported that it was probably the highest selling software release ever.

[5] SoftAid was followed in 1986 by another ten game compilation, Off The Hook, which was also organised by Rod Cousens who had then moved to Electric Dreams Software.

It was released to support the Prince's Trust work on drug abuse rehabilitation with versions available for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

Released for the Amstrad CPC as well as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, the ten game compilation raised money for the NSPCC and RSSPCC.