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- D I S K O V E R Y 2 1 0
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- by Dave Moorman
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- The Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand
- Two has arrived. It came to Holly, CO,
- on a blustery cold midnight, amid
- tooting horns and flashing fireworks.
- Bub McGee always saves up fireworks
- from the Fourth of July for the New
- Year celebration. We gather at the
- church, eat chilli, play bingo, and
- swap lies until the hallowed hour.
-
- Then Sheri lit up the candles
- on my birthday cake: fifty two of them
- this New Year's day. Good thing Bub is
- also the Fire Marshall!
-
- Anyway, the new year is upon us. I
- am older -- exactly when do I get
- wiser? And we have a lot to look
- forward to in the coming months.
-
- Last year was a huge transition.
- Maurice Jones passed away. Maurice
- Randall bought up Creative Micro
- Design's Commodore product rights and
- brought back into production some of
- the best peripherals in all of
- computerdom. The LUCKY Report ended
- last month so Dale Sidebottom and Rolf
- Miller could focus on uniting our
- various and sundry users groups
- through UCUGA. Two new SuperCPU
- operating systems joined forces: CLiPs
- and JOS became =WINGS=. And Jeri
- Ellsworth showed the Chicago Expo how
- far she has come on the C=1 -- then
- had the prototype ripped off.
-
- And Sheri and I discovered that
- editing the Premier Software Digest is
- not just a walk in the park. I haven't
- had more fun in ages -- but it can be
- a job.
-
- I must thank all of you who have
- pledged your support to the "8-bitter"
- end -- The end won't come this year!
- We might miss a deadline, but every
- issue which even one of you has
- ordered [will] be shipped! We have
- subscriptions up to 236 already. And I
- can see no reason to not keep cracking
- through that number.
-
- LOADSTAR has changed some this
- year. We have published virtually
- every piece of new software that
- arrived in our mailbox. (Some are
- slated for later for various reasons).
- And we have mined the LOADSTAR Library
- to find quality programs and
- challenges from among the Oldie
- Goldies. You will note that our
- categories this month are more "theme"
- oriented than function focused. In a
- way, part of each issue becomes a
- mini-collection of related software.
-
- I am a media generalist, which
- means that I know a lot but for years
- couldn't find a job that employed my
- knowledge. LOADSTAR is that job. I
- couldn't be happier.
-
- And what I have been doing is
- looking for the entertainment factor
- in LOADSTAR. Some are entertained by
- good productivity software. Others
- like to think about programming.
- Others still just want a good game to
- curl up with on a cold night. And
- still others enjoy a well-wrought
- story told with images, music, and
- words.
-
- Which reminds me -- Robert
- Bernardo sent me a mystery screen play
- script. That is why I have developed
- MediaMeister! The shooting has begun
- and soon you will see the first C-64
- Photo/Impressionistic Media
- Presentation (P.I.M.P?)!
-
- Speaking of Photo/Impressionism,
- the cover graphic came from a JPEG of
- a scan of The Guinness Book of World
- Records. I converted it to GIF format
- and brought it over through GoDot.
- This is the kind of back room art I
- can accomplish. You can too!
-
- I have carried on a bit too long
- -- not only is it past my bedtime, the
- rooster alarm just went off! Cock-a-
- Doodle-Doo!
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- DMM
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