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- This issue came together very
- quickly -- once I completed GOLEMS, a
- new, Lemmings-like game. In fact, I
- got so involved in getting the little
- guys walking, climbing, turning,
- and falling, that I didn't get History
- of Computers II put together.
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- But Dave Peterson, a great guy
- from Ames, Iowa, corrected me on the
- legal end of the deal. According to
- the court, ENIAC was [not] the first
- all-electronic computer in the US. So
- I sent an URL to Grady Glover and he
- produced a great article on the true
- inventors of the electronic computer.
- Read all about it in History Ware!
-
- ASCII ROXIE is back, with three
- "new" movies. And I recieved yet
- another CG movie from Glenn P, who
- also taught me all about Self
- Dissolving Archives. I must have been
- asleep when Jeff Jones explained such
- important subjects back in the 90's.
- So next month, we will have
- information and programs for creating
- compressed archives that unpack
- themselves.
-
- In the LOADSTAR Forum, you will
- see a letter from Frank Morland, who
- had to bug me for a long time to get
- him a working copy of one of our
- issues. The problem is the elevator
- here at the Mighty LOADSTAR Tower.
- What with adding a floor every month
- or so, Teamster strikes, terrorist
- threats, political promises, and sun
- spots on the moon, our elevator gets
- cranky and refuses to return to the
- street level, where the mail is
- delivered.
-
- Why, oh why! did Fender have to
- build such an ungainly structure --
- especially now, at 234 stories, it is
- in danger of tripping low-flying
- airplanes out of the sky? Couldn't he
- have been happy with the Softdisk
- catacombs?
-
- But we do get our work done --
- albeit slower than molasses on a cold
- morning. And Frank was knocked over by
- Metal Warrior 4, which he has
- successfully completed. So we dug up
- Metal Warrior 3 to keep him, and you,
- busy well into 2005.
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- There's lots more here -- four
- 1541 sides packed as tight as we can
- get them with C-64 entertainment.
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- DMM
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