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Commodore Free Magazine
Issue 30 May 2009
www.commodorefree.com
Free to download magazine
Dedicated to Commodore Computers
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Editorial
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Hello again!
Well it's an issue fairly dedicated to
the CP/m Operating system, many
Commodore users will not have heard or
even used CP/m and I always think that
Gary Kildall never receives the credit
he deserves for its creation. Gary has
almost been removed from computing
history especially if you look at some
of the larger company's version of
history.
To address the problem I have been
given the ok to reprint an article
originally created by Sol Libes. I
also found some info about 128 CP/M in
a document from HERNE systems, I would
like to than them for the permission
to reprint the article.
Disappointment
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The main problem I had was creating an
issue where it seemed no one uses the
CP/M Operating system on a
Commodore machine, I know this is not
true as many forum questions are
posted about Commodore and CP/M so it
seemed strange no one wanted to talk
about Commodore and CP/M I did however
manage to contact Gaby Chaudry who
agreed to supply some info but it was
more general & not directly Commodore
related.
I know very little about CP/M using
Commodore machines so here is my best
effort, I asked for information and
received little back.
I did manage an interview with the
creator of " Dos65 commodore" and you
can read his comments about the system
later in the magazine. Also starts
another Alternative Programming
Languages: this time in C
Looking intelligent
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Someone on the radio (an academic
researching pausing and breaks in
language and communication) said that
"starting a sentence with the word SO
makes you seem more important and also
seems to be a trend at the moment
especially with University students"
SO..
Moving quickly on, we have some
interesting news from Retrobright who
seem to have solved the problem of
yellowing cases. As Chemistry is not a
good subject for me and the chemicals
involved are rather potent to say the
least I think I wont bother doing my
own trials on this particular project.
However the results on the website do
look rather good, & is something many
users though impossible for a number
of years.
Andrew Fisher sent in a review of the
Retro Gamer CD CARTRIDGE RANGE
although these have been looked at
briefly in other issues, any new games
are always a welcome to anyone's
collection, especially when the are as
well produced as these titles.
TV
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Last month I moaned about Red Dwarf, I
will now leave this to die out.
However I did manage to catch the
remake of Reggie Perrin that was
originally called "The Fall And Rise
Of Reginald Perrin". Although some of
the jokes were amusing and the show
did capture the spirit of the
original, you can't help but wonder
why companies remake older shows, the
originals are always better version,
however I suppose in the current
climate it's cheaper for companies to
remake than inventing something new. I
sat & watched the show rely because
there was nothing else on the TV. With
hundreds of cable channels to choose
from nothing was worth the money I
spend on the cable subscription, the
usual story these days. Weren't we
better in the UK at least when we had
just 5 channels of "choice" or even 3
channels. I remember my grandparents
thinking things were better with 2
channels.
The more channels the less there is to
watch! Oh no I am turning into Reggie
Perrin. The BBC posting about the
remake can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/
proginfo/tv/2009/wk16/unplaced.shtml
#unplaced_reggieperrin
Still however critical you want to be
about remakes, the show was amusing
but I would have preferred the BBC to
just re-run the original series.
Issue 30 PDF Contents:
News - Page 3
RGCD Cartridge reviews - Page 6
The Kidal Legacy - Page 7
DOS65 - Page 9
Interview with DOS65 creator - Page 9
Introduction to CPM - Page 12
CPM Operating system - Page 16
Worlds greatest menu - Page 18
CCC UK Forum post cbm 128 - Page 18
Intro to C programming - Page 19
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