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D I S K O V E R Y
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.
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.
There's lots more here -- four
1541 sides packed as tight as we can
get them with C-64 entertainment.
DMM