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- D I S K S E R V A N T
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- by Alf H. Jonassen
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- LOADSTAR is proud to present 400 of the best blocks it's ever published.
- 86 of them comprise the 100% ML program, DISKSERVANT, and the rest are
- devoted to a grand tutorial on things every C-128 owner should know. I
- learned a lot from Alf's documentation.
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- The five text files for DISKSERVANT explain in detail how it works and
- what it can do for you. In a nutshell, DISKSERVANT will take care of your
- disk copying, file copying, disk formatting, autobooting, directory
- management, and several other things that every C-128 user, whether a
- beginner or an expert, needs to do. This program is a true GEM!
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- Read the docs. You won't find that much useful information in one place
- anywhere in the C-128 world -- well, maybe in Parsec's Twin Cities
- Compendium books (P.O. Box 111, Salem MA 09170-0111, 508-745-9125).
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- Run the program. Be prepared to be bowled over. It does everything so
- magnificently I can't do it justice, even with my most bombastic prose.
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- Alf Jonassen made a big splash in the C-128 pond a couple of years back
- when he marketed THE SERVANT, a chip that added incredible power to your
- machine. There was a demo of THE SERVANT on disk, but because it took up so
- much memory, it was practically unusable. It was, after all, just a demo of
- the real workhorse, the chip. When I heard that Alf was dropping THE
- SERVANT because of anemic demand (shame on us!) I asked him if he would take
- the DOS section out and make it into a useful tool. As you will see, he did
- a terrific job.
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- The 128 world is dwindling, even though there were millions sold and at
- one time, the best programming minds were writing for it. It's still the
- best 8-bit computer ever made and as long as there are people with the
- expertise of an Alf Jonassen writing programs for it, LOADSTAR 128 will
- continue to publish. I'm going to keep looking in Europe, where the C-128
- still reigns in the 8-bit world, for programs of this caliber for LOADSTAR
- 128. They won't be easy to find -- DISKSERVANT is almost in a class by
- itself -- but you thousand loyal LOADSTARites deserve the best.
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- Thanks, Alf. Thanks, loyal readers. Long live LOADSTAR 128.
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