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- Coffen 21740
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- If there are any subscribers to
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- LOADSTAR that live in the HAGERSTOWN
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- area (area code 301) I'd be happy to
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- hear from them. I've got a MODEM/300
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- and would like to hear from those in
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- my area. If you are interested,
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- call me, or drop me a letter and we'll
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- work out an arrangement. My address
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- is:
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- Ron Coffen
- 25 Bittersweet Drive
- Hagerstown MD 21740
- Tel. (301) 797-7594
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- From: Branham 95501
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- I have purchased several programs
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- that I don't trust and therefore
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- don't use. One is 'The Home
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- Accountant' by Continental Software.
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- I spent many days only to find out
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- a new version works and my $79
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- version does not work. I even talked
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- a friend into buying a copy almost
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- a year later and he still got the
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- old version. He sent to the company
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- and they fixed his copy. I got a
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- good copy from him, but I have not
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- spent the time needed to get back
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- into it.
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- > Home Accountant had some problems
- > in its early versions, but we
- > understand that it's just fine
- > now. Some dealers don't send in
- > old copies for an update to improved
- > versions, which could explain why
- > your friend also got a bad one.
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- I have spent days and weeks with
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- Practifile. The first copy I bought
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- screwed up the program on the disk.
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- I bought a second copy which I used
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- to fix the first disk. Then I gave an
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- original set to my friend. The
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- program has a habit of leaving a file
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- open and showing an error when I am
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- trying to save something on it. This
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- happened three times when I had about
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- one hundred address files. I have
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- decided to use that 'Little Black
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- Disk' of yours. It seems to be
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- working fine.
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- > Yours is the first complaint we've
- > heard about Practifile. We're
- > delighted that you opted for Little
- > Black Disk.
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- I asked for a back-up of Multiplan
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- for $10. They said for me to send
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- proof of purchase and sent my money
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- back to me. So I made my own copy
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- that works fine
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- > Many companies, including Loadstar,
- > ask for some tangible evidence of
- > purchase before supplying back-ups
- > or updates. It wasn't always that
- > way. The inconvenience is caused
- > by the abuses brought on by
- > piracy.
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- I purchased "The Clone Machine",
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- "Mr. Tester", and "Screen Dump" from
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- Micro-W Distributing Inc. Three times
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- I have ordered the instructions to
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- adjust the 1541 disk drive from them.
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- They said they only make copies every
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- so often. That has been since about
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- the first of May.
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- From: Howald 91406
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- The author of the Copier Review was
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- mistaken when he stated you could
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- only make one copy of commercial
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- software; you can make up to five
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- copies for archival purposes only
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- (!!DON'T PIRATE SOFTWARE!!) according
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- to the copyright laws of the U.S..
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- I have a word processor that not
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- much is heard of...FONTMASTER by
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- Xetec. I use it with my EPSON MX-80
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- interfaced with either Cardco +G or
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- G-Wiz. This system allows the use of
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- 16 different fonts (8 at a time) and
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- you can change fonts as many times
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- as you like, even in the middle of a
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- word!
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- I recently bought a MACH-5 disk
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- speedup cartridge and it has many
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- features that FASTLOAD doesn't have
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- like defeating that annoying (and
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- potentially misaligning) disk drive
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- rattle, a two-keystroke command for
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- opening a printer file with a CMD
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- and a two-keystroke command for
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- closing a printer file and lots more.
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- But it doesn't have what FASTLOAD
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- does like copy, format etc. It comes
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- with both a disk filing program and a
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- BASIC 4 conversion on disk. The BASIC
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- 4 conversion frees up an additional
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- 4K of RAM.
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- I use both FASTLOAD and MACH-5 and
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- have them both plugged in to my five-
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- slot expansion port. I could not
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- access the feedback maker from the
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- LOADSTAR environment. I was able to
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- get to it by listing the directory of
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- side two and loading it directly.
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- > Feedback Maker doesn't like
- > FASTLOAD and may not like MACH-5
- > either.
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- From: Groothof 80906
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- I'm a handicapped person, and would
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- like to use my Com64 and modem to get
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- in touch with other people in my
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- area. Can you help?
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- Theo Groothof
- 548 William Ave.
- Colorado Springs, CO.80906
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- P.S. I've tried one company that
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- advertised in Commodore magazine, but
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- they specialize in workshops. Since I
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- am not mobile, I could not use their
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- services.
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