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D I S K O V E R Y
by Dave Moorman
First off, let me apologize to all
of you who have waited with bated
breath by your mailbox for the next
issue of LOADSTAR. I guess I have been
pastor here at Holly too long. The job
just gets busier every year. When I
put the issue together, zuchinni was
"good and ripe," and the political
climate of the United States was just
making a huge weather change. Now an
incredible amount of snow covers the
ground of southeast Colorado, a new
Congress has begun, and [finally] we
are able to put this issue in the
mail.
As I look through this issue, I
note that I have done most of the
contributions. In a way, that makes
this an "ego-zine." I apologize. Next
month, we have material from Brian
Crosthwaite, Ricky Derocher, Jane
Jones, and other Masters of the C-64
to enrich our experience.
This issue is, as it were, a
repository of Utilities and Tools that
have made creation on the C-64 a lot
of fun for me. I suppose no one else
in the country or the world gets the
kind of kick I do when I put together
a piece of (I hope) entertaining
software. That is why I do this -- and
evidently others don't.
Which is OK. We all have our
hobbies. But some day, perhaps in the
far future, a 14 year-old kid will
find a 30-in-one joystick that
granddad hacked into a real C-64. And
that kid gets the bug, the infection,
the crazy idea that the greatest
computer game in the world is
programming a computer.
And, with a bit (or byte) of luck,
this issue will be there, offering
tools, utilities, and ideas that will
spur on his/her desire to create.
OK, probably not. I mean, when
kids get VPods and have MTV with them
24/7, who will want to be creative?
But on a more upbeat note: During
this long hiatus, I have received a
number of phone calls from Ricky
Derocher and emails from Lee Novak.
Some incredible new software is coming
over the horizon. We are not dead yet.
One thing Ricky brought up just
yesterday was that a great many of us
have succumbed to the real necessity
of PCs, and do our Commodoring via
VICE. This gives us great freedom to
easily move between various C=
platforms, and enjoy some otherwise
costly extras. For example, adding an
REU to a C-64 is no big deal with VICE
1.07 or higher. The question I want to
explore is how to use it for more
exciting computing?
Also, the VIC 20, Plus 4, and
other C= machines are virtually
available. Perhaps we need to explore
software for these computers as well
as we round the last corner of
LOADSTAR's brilliant run.
Anyway, we are still at it,
producing interactive entertainment
for the greatest hobbyist computers
ever created. And if you have a
project of any sort, get it finished
up and share it with all of LOADSTAR's
galaxy of loyal readers.
DMM