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Commodore Free Magazine
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http://www.commodorefree.com/
Issue 32, July/August 2009
Free to download magazine
dedicated to Commodore computers
Available as PDF, HTML, TXT, SEQ
and D64 disk image
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CONTENTS
* Editorial
* WANTED Can you help
* NEWS
- Games That Weren't updated
- Spot the Commodore
- NETsurf
- Amiga Forever 2009 released
- Modding the COLORS in JiffyDOS
- Wiz Console emulator
- Knight 'n' Grail available
- Commodore 16 High score challenge
- Paul "Dunric" Panks Passed away
- Paul Allen Panks Homepage
* Interview with Vanessa Ezekowitz
* C64 Forever
* Doing Postscript output from Geos
* Postscript Output From Geos
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Editorial
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My young son has gone mad about the
"Banana splits"; If your reading this
and remember the Splits from the 70{SHIFT-*}s
then you may find it strange that a 3
year old wants to go and see them.
Bearing in my son has never actually
seen a single show staring the Banana
splits, but the only thing he has is
a cuddly toy we won in one of these
coin operated arm grabbing machines.
You know the one where it's
impossible to actually win anything
as the grabbers are so polished and
the toys so heavy that the items just
slip out before you get the item any
ware near the win box.
Well it seems my wife has a built in
ability to spot arcade machines that
you could be able to win items from.
She will look at the machine, and if
the toy is on the top and clear from
obstructions and the grab arms get a
clear erm "grab" at the item then she
can win it. We came away from holiday
with about 15 toys in our suitcases;
some were as big as my child! How
with the weight she managed to get
the toy is beyond my belief.
Anyway back to the "splits" well as I
say my son has a banana split toy,
after playing with the toy he asked,
if he could watch them on TV. I
explained they were on in the 70{SHIFT-*}s
and to my knowledge no cable channel
in the UK has replayed the series. I
think there were around 36 episodes
but as a child it seemed more like an
infinite number. My Son said please
"please" daddy, PLEASE then he asked
me to sing the banana splits song; I
remembered the song although not word
perfect, he wanted this song sung at
night for 2 weeks before he would
go-to sleep.
Finally after I became so fed up with
the pestering I found a MP3 of the
original song, the Dickies released a
"punk" version that was much faster
than the TV show and I believe they
sang both versions, (I have the
yellow vinyl Dickies version in the
attic on a 45, although no one knows
what a 45 or single is now) I paid
for the mp3 download of the TV series
it lasts about one and a half minutes
and copied it to a CD ROM to play in
the Hi-Fi I also went on YouTube for
the Banana splits and googled Banana
Splits. It seemed that the video's
were released but not the DVDs for
some reason, they held it back. Now
finally the Banana splits are to be
released on DVD series 1 in October I
have pre ordered but for the moment I
sit with my son watching what we can
of the show on YouTube
If you Google enough you will find a
site called the banana splits and
there is a DVD with all 36 episodes
pirated from the video in all the
fuzzy video glory, I would of course
warn anyone away from supporting
pirate software and advise you to
wait for the original and far
superior release on DVD in
September/October I have pre-ordered
this with Amazon
So; you may well be thinking "what
has this got to do with Commodore"
Well to be absolutely honest;
"Nothing at all"
This month after much demand I have
reprinted the Geos postscript article
that appeared in one of the early
issues of Commodore free issue 2 I
think, and as it was penned by my
god-self I think its an absolutely
excellent article and ties in with
Lord Ronin and his Postscript
printing experiments.
Remember if you attempt to use
postscript machines use the LW or
Apple laser writer fonts as the
Commodore bitmapped fonts will just
print out jagged and look awful
I checked the issue for mistakes and
didn't find any so added some at
random to keep the usual Commodore
Free standard of editorial-ship (erm
not sure that's a word) in place to
maintain usual standards
Thanks
Nigel
www.commodorefree.com
Paul Badrick - Spell checking
Paul Davis - Conversion of text and
Html versions
Al Jackson - D64 Disk image
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