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L O A D S T A R F O R U M
Dave -
I recently came across the
Loadstar website. Hot Dang!!! I am
an old C64 user from way back in
1984-5 when I was in the military
stationed in Turkey. A friend had
ordered a C64 from Sears and they
sent him two of them. He sold me the
second one (and really did pay Sears
for the two) and I was off into
computing land.
I had subscribed to Compute's
Gazette and I began learning
Commodore basic. I also taught
myself algebra (what? X is a letter,
5 is a number. They CAN'T be the
same!!) In 1986 I got married and,
as you mentioned on the website, I
had the same experience of my wife
asking "Are you coming to bed?" Just
after getting married, I also
subscribed to this new magazine on
disk called Loadstar and, along with
my trusty 1541, opened myself to the
joys of 'commercial' software -
something not programmed by me.
One of my favorite memories of my
daughter (now 15 and living with her
mother in another state) was when I
got the Christmas 1989 disk and
reading/playing the little Santa
story with my daughter who INSISTED
that I "do it again, Daddy."
I have since moved on from that
old Commodore to the IBM crowd but
still have a love for computers. I
am a computer consultant - mainly
for individual users who can't
afford the big-time guys, but I also
provide support for my church (of
the UMC persuasion) in Chicago.
I just wanted to say to the staff
of Loadstar "Thanks for getting me
into computing!"
Ken Greene
Ken,
First of all, most of the credit goes
to Fender Tucker who made LOADSTAR
[THE Premier Software Digest] of all
time. We also need to thank Jim
Weiler, Jeff Jones, Scott Resh, and
hundreds of [Independent Programmers]
who offered us their great feats of
prestodigitalization over the years.
It would be interesting to find out
how many computer professionals got
their start with the C-64 and
LOADSTAR. I remember three things
that amazed me about the first
LOADSTAR I bought:
1. EIGHT programs for less than the
price of one boxed game! (a very
important factor then, and now.)
2. A friendly interface -- including
the crazy guys at the Tower who
shared so much about themselves,
they became good friends before we
ever met.
3. The text and tutorials did not
insult my intelligence. I had been
programming in Basic for eight
years (on a TRS-80) and did not
need to go over the basics again
and again like the consumer rag
mags did. LOADSTAR was often well
over my head -- and that challenged
me to learn what they were talking
about!
LOADSTAR is very much ALIVE, and with
an emulator like VICE, you can relive
some of those great moments and new
gems every month -- right on your
Windows PC. Some say this is a giant
step backwards, turning a 400+ Mhz
machine into a 1 Mhz C-64.
I call it "The Best of All Possible
Worlds."
DMM