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L O A D S T A R F O R U M
We get letters!
David
Just a note to say I realy enjoyed
issue 231. Some very enlightening
points, a little American for me :-).
Loved the starsigns
Thanks
Nigel Parker
Thanks, Nigel.
Nigel is a new LOADSTARite from
Merrie Olde England. I'm afraid we
Yanks get a mickel overboard on
Patriotism sometimes. But here is
the challenge. Everyone is proud
of their home and heritage. Let's
see a graphics/music show from
[your] favorite land! Send me a
script and images (even photos
will do). We will put together a
"God Bless the Queen" (or
whatever) presentation!
Dave
Commodore in 2004,
This is the first time I've
written for Loadstar so bear with me!
It's really neat to still be able to
receive a techno-luddite magazine such
as this. The work and organization are
awesome.
Of course the standard story: I
was very pleasantly surprised to find
about the active C-64 community when I
discovered the internet back in '98.
CMD was quite a loyal company and
Maurice Randall has our undying
gratitude for his continuation of C=
support in this 21st century. JiffyDOS
was an improvement over the stock
system and boy, is it compatible! The
SUPERCPU and RAMLINK are wonderful
additions in themselves. I'd love to
get a hard drive when I can afford it.
I have been amazed at the quality
of releases from people such as
Protovision: PacIt, Stroke World,
Cascade and their other products are
amazing. I hope they can keep it up
for a long while. I am always
surprised and pleased at the various
programs that Dave manages to get into
LOADSTAR. Some of my favourites
have been Doris, Reaxion, Cyberwing.
The puzzles are a great touch as well.
I have a few ideas and questions
about our platform that could possibly
interest the LS community.
* Useful files for Modplay 64 - I need
help with the .lhz file format, it
appears.
* An MP3 player for the SCPU and
RAMLink (might be possible considering
the JPEG viewer that has been
created!)
* Find out what is wrong with certain
FD2000 drives that write files that
later lock up the drive when the next
file is to be loaded.
Keep up the good work Dave,
Maurice, Jeri and everybody else.
Regards
Andrew Roberts
Andrew,
I really appreciate the feedback.
I sometimes wonder if what we are
doing is what needs to be done.
Hearing from you helps a lot.
I have heard the word [community]
used quite a bit to describe
almost any aggregate of people.
But the Commodore community is a
very real thing. We know we are
Techno-Luddite (secular) or
Techno-Amish (not-secular) and we
have to hang together or we will
all hang out in the breeze.
Actually, I believe we are more
Techno-Amish (at least here at the
Tower) than Luddite -- and not for
religious reasons. Luddites
dislike machines, especially
"labor saving devices," since they
are generally the labor which is
saved -- and out of work.
The Amish hang back in the late
19th Century because it is Plain
and Ordinary. The technical level
depends on each community. I know
of one Amish community where the
latest equipment and hybrid seed
is used, because it makes sense to
do the best you can with your
farm. But they still avoid
electricity, television, and
automobiles, which are obviously
meaningless gimcracks!
And that is how we at LOADSTAR
are with our Commodores. Keep it
Plain and Ordinary -- and use a
Pentium when it makes sense.
I hope a LOADSTARite or two has
some answers for your wish list.
Send them to LOADSTAR, PO Box 44,
Holly, CO 81047, or get on the
Homestead maillist, where a lot of
us hang out together.
Thanks again!
Dave