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** COMMODORE FREE MAGAZINE **
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Volume 3 Issue 1 January 2009
www.commodorefree.com
Free to download magazine
Dedicated to Commodore Computers
Available as Text, Html, PDF, SEQ and
Commodore 64 D64 disk image
Editor
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www.commodorecomputerclub.co.uk/
http://translate.google.com
/translate{CBM-@}t#
Happy new year!
Translation
Right a few readers have asked about
Commodore Free as a German,French and
Spanish publication. I am one person
editing the magazine,I speak only one
language (and am still trying to
master that correctly) I can't
possibly translate the magazine to
other languages on my own. I have
found this website though, run by
Google:
http://translate.google.com
/translate{CBM-@}t#
where you can convert to and from
many languages. I have tried the site
with the TEXT version of Commodore
Free and it did seemed to work ok,
well for my schoolboy French.
Something, however is lost in the
translation, especially if you
transfer back to English again, but
this is better than nothing, and I am
hoping you will be able to pick your
way through the translations to your
native language.
Now back to Commodore Free magazine
For anyone who knows me, and wonders
why the heck I still load games from
tape (and most think I am absolutely
mad for continuing to do so), heck
people tell me with uiec and mmc and
all manner of sd card readers what's
the point of using flaky tape devices
We have an interview with Tom Roger
from the Tapes 64 website (a tape
preservation website)
http://tapes.c64.no/index.php
So why do people load from tape, well
for me personally tape was the first
storage format I ever had, loading
from tape is slow and this builds up
anticipation, loading screens and
music displayed during the waiting
process really added to the game. I
also personally feel that the time it
took to load a game made the user get
more involved with the game and play
it for longer, if you have almost
instant access to any game like from
an SD card reader you will play a
game for a few seconds, then think
heck I could be playing xyz load xyz
for a few seconds then think I havent
played abc for ages then load abc and
play for a few seconds. Of course
loading from tape using a none turbo
loading system and having to wait 20
minutes for something like Arcadia to
load, well even I'm not that
dedicated a user.
Also for this issue I have also had
permission to reprint "On the Road
the Commodore Scene meeting 2008 and
a visit to AmigaKit by Robert
Bernardo" Part of Robert's tour of
the Commodore community. You may
remember Robert visited "commodore
Scene" well ok what was left of
Commodore Scene it was myself, Shaun
Bebbington and Allan Bairstow. At the
time of the meeting Allan commented
that meeting every 2 years was too
much, we all agreed we needed a local
club and have meetings more regularly
hence the emergence of the "Commodore
Computer Club U.K." in the article I
have included a picture Robert took
showing myself in the centre and
Shaun Bebbington and Alan Bairstow.
Some of you may have already seen the
article, but I know you wont have
seen the picture.
Lord Ronin continues his beginners
guide to using the Commodore 64 with
a look at the final chapters of the
User guide that was included with the
machine, I know some readers have
said "what is the point" but if you
have been reading the article Lord
Ronin does give some easier to under-
-stand information, he has also corr-
ected some of the listing errors in
the manual,I guess it was rushed with
the launch of the machine. Some more
information I have converted the
manual to a 40 column document with
ASCII art, this is being checked on
Commodore 64 to ensure readability
and then I intend to create a disk
menu with the manual.
The news section sees some more
innovations from Individual Computers
with a flicker fixer for the
Commodore 64, I would love to see
this device working.
Also on the news of the Commodore
Computer Club, we should have a
working bank account (although I am
writing this in the past tense) after
various problems it seems the bank
has excepted us as users, I can only
put the problems down to the credit
crunch as we gave them everything
they wanted then they would say there
was information missing and ask us to
refill in the forms, with a bank
account we sort of now look semi-
professional.
I have received various hate mails
about Commodore Free,and at one point
I thought about just stopping
production and doing other things.But
I did receive some emails from users
expressing an interest in the
magazine and wishing me good luck. I
am paying rather a lot for web
hosting, but I feel it does give me
flexibility, and although its
expensive the support is excellent. I
don't really know what to do for the
best at this moment. All I can say is
that Commodore Free may go more
infrequent,mainly because of the time
to research and create the magazine,
and the lack of time I have to myself
and my Commodore.
I welcome comments
Regards
Nigel
www.commodorefree.com
EDITOR Nigel Parker
SPELL CHECKING Peter Badrick
DISK IMAGE Al Jackson
CONTRIBUTIONS Lord Ronin
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