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- LOADSTAR BACK ISSUE LIST
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- ISSUE #1
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- LUNAR LANDER
- Have you got the "right stuff" to
- be an astronaut?
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- HOPPER
- Bet you can't leave just one (peg,
- that is..).
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- COWS & BULLS
- Not an agricultural program; it
- helps to be a MASTERMIND.
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- COLOR LISTER
- Puts an end to monochrome
- listings.
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- DISK SCANNER, SECTOR CORRECTOR, and
- FILE SCANNER
- These three useful programs let
- you save the day when your diskette
- goes bad.
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- FRENCH MILITARY GAME
- A "board" strategy game (the C-64
- gets smarter as you play).
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- SLOT MACHINE
- Everyone hates bandits (even if
- they have only one arm).
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- BAM MAP 64
- Answers Shakespeare's question:
- What is used and what is not?
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- BINARY SAVE
- For those who want to save RAW
- memory to disk.
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- DECISION MAKER
- This will help, but you still must
- take responsibility for your
- actions.
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- BLIP IS THE BLAP OF BLEEP
- A random aphorism generator.
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- HOW SMART ARE YOU?
- This program will not answer the
- question.
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- ISSUE #2
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- PLANET OF THE ROBOTS
- An exciting adventure! Avoid the
- evil robots and find your way back
- to the 20th century.
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- DETECTIVE CODEY
- A C-64 version of CLUE.
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- PSYMON
- Like SIMON - can you repeat what
- you hear and see.
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- LIGHT RACERS
- Two player game - how long can you
- avoid a crash? Two joysticks
- required.
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- CHEMISTRY DRILL
- A review of elements, symbols, and
- formulas. You may remember more
- than you think!
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- MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTER
- A teacher's aid. Makes and takes
- tests.
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- OCEAN OF LIFE
- Some people pay a shrink good
- money for an analysis like this.
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- ADDRESS KEEPER
- Keeps track of names, phone
- numbers, and addresses in a
- sequential text file.
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- LOAN PLANNER
- Even if you don't know what
- amortization means, this will help
- you with long term purchases.
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- CRYPTO-GRAM HELPER
- Helps solve cryptogram puzzles.
- Also make your own and save them to
- disk.
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- MIDDLE EARTH QUIZ
- Tolkienophiles will love this one.
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- ISSUE #3
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- SMURK
- An evil cave dwelling creature
- guards an immense treasure. The
- object of this adventure game is to
- kill the Smurk and retrieve the
- treasure before the Smurk kills you.
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- HEAD-ON
- So you think you're a good driver?
- How long can you avoid a "head-on"
- collision with a smart car guided by
- your C-64?
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- GUESS WHAT?
- This program gets smarter every
- time it is run. Children love this
- one.
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- POKER PARLOR
- Anyone for five card draw?
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- TABLES & PEOPLE
- One definition of intelligence is
- the ability to recognize patterns.
- The object of this game is to
- discover computer selected patterns.
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- STRESS TEST
- Let Drs. Holmes and Masudu
- compute your social readjustment
- factor.
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- CHECKBOOK BALANCER
- This is one of the reasons you
- bought a computer.
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- RATE EXCHANGE
- Tell your C-64 the most current
- money exchange rate and it will
- print a chart for you to take on
- your trip abroad.
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- 4-MINUTE COPY
- Straight from Germany. This
- utility program will format and copy
- a disk in four minutes on one drive.
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- BASE CONVERTER
- This program makes number base
- conversions to base 36. Hackers
- will want to convert to and from
- base 16 (HEX).
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- GARDENING TOOL
- This will add polish to your
- programs. Help us stamp out boring
- INPUT prompts.
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- ISSUE #4
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- SPECTRUM
- A challenging, colorful, graphic
- solitaire card game with sound.
- Once you try it, you'll never touch
- real playing cards again.
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- SPIDERS
- Try to catch as many spiders as
- you can without getting sprayed by
- the RAID. Also try to avoid the
- killer bugs.
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- MADMAN
- This is a twist of an old
- favorite, "BREAK-OUT". In this
- version you will meet a few new
- faces.
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- FIREFLIES
- Capture as many fireflies as you
- can without getting "stung" by the
- "mutant" firefly.
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- WESTERN WRITER
- A random Western movie script
- writer.
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- TEACHER'S GRADEBOOK
- This program allows input of
- student name, number of grades for
- each student, and actual grades.
- Sort by either average or alpha-
- betically. See the results on the
- screen or printer.
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- PLANET PROGRAM
- A real treat and a lesson in
- sprite animation.
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- MEMO-PAD
- Now you can have a place to keep
- all of your important memos. This
- handy program allows you to add,
- change, or delete any memo you have
- on file.
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- REEL FACTS
- So you think you are a movie fan?
- This collection of Academy Award
- facts will put you to the test.
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- ISSUE #5
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- NOMINEE '84
- A challenging simulation. Do you
- know enough to become the President?
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- SOUND DESIGNER
- Now you can find what it takes to
- make the exact sound that you want.
- This program even gives you the
- POKEs.
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- SOLITAIRE
- Another in a series of card games
- from Donna K. Woody.
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- LEFT/RIGHT GAME
- Try to figure out which hand is
- your left and which is your right!
- This game will make you wonder.
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- BIORHYTHM
- How are you going to be feeling
- next week? BIORHYTHM will tell you!
- This program outputs to the printer.
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- ELECTRONIC PALM READER
- This game can save you a trip to
- the nearest "fortune teller".
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- SCI-FI WRITER
- A random science-fiction movie
- script writer.
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- ADDITION DRILL
- This program helps a youngster to
- practice basic addition facts.
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- STATE GUESSING GAME
- It's a real challenge to name the
- state capitals! Try it and see how
- many you can name.
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- BABYSITTER'S NOTES
- Now you can have a place to keep
- all of the important notes you need
- to leave your babysitter. Names,
- addresses, and special notes are
- included.
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- NUTRITION INFORMATION
- So you think you know a lot about
- nutrition? Check out this essay on
- health from a registered dietician.
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- DIET PROGRAM
- This program can help you stay on
- your diet!
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- ISSUE #6
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- ELECTION NIGHT
- Now you can stay up late and
- out-predict TV election coverage.
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- BASEBALL ADVENTURE
- Here is an adventure that pits you
- against time (or the innings). See
- if you can keep your job as ticket
- salesman.
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- OTHELLO
- You will absolutely 'flip' over
- this version of an old favorite.
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- BINGO
- Throw a 64 bingo party. This
- program prints bingo cards as well
- as picking bingo numbers.
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- TYPING TUTOR
- Improve your typing skills. This
- program lets you practice just about
- any set of keys.
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- HEAT STRESS
- This is similiar to the wind chill
- we hear so much about during the
- winter. HEAT STRESS takes into
- account temperature and humidity.
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- HORROR WRITER
- A random horror movie script
- writer.
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- SNOOPY CALENDAR
- Now you can have your official
- 1985 (or any year you want)
- calendar along with a picture of
- SNOOPY.
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- WEIGHTS & MEASURES
- You can replace hundreds of
- conversion charts with this one
- handy program.
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- VISIBLE BUBBLE SORT
- This is for those who have always
- wondered how a bubble sort works.
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- DRAW
- Now you can turn your C-64 into a
- hi-res doodling screen. This
- program is complete with menus.
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- JUMP
- You are lost in the depths of an
- underground maze!! Can you escape?
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- SYS FINDER
- This handy utility helps you to
- remember that long forgotten SYS.
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- DELTA DATE
- Now you can find out just how many
- days there are until Christmas.
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- ISSUE #7
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- SUPER KENO
- Pick your keno card and see how
- good you are at guessing numbers.
- There are multiple screens to see
- past trends.
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- CONNECT 4
- A fantastic game of concentration
- and logic. You can play against the
- computer or a friend. Be the first
- to get four pieces in a row.
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- MULTIPLICATION DRILL
- Designed for the middle to upper
- elementary grade student. Takes the
- boredom out of learning
- multiplication.
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- LIBRARY ADVENTURE
- You have volunteered to explore
- the planet of Librarium. This is an
- adventure game with a twist.
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- SOUND PHRASES
- Now you can find out what 'oom-
- pah-pah' really sounds like.
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- LOAN CALCULATOR
- This program will calculate
- monthly payments for up to eight
- different situations.
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- OUTSTANDING GRAPHER
- Have you ever wanted to construct
- a bar graph on your C-64? Now you
- can add graphic representations to
- any type of presentation!
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- WORLD AIR
- Calculates the air distance
- between almost any two cities in the
- world.
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- WIND CHILL
- This program tells you exactly how
- cold it feels.
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- PARA-TESTER
- The object of this game is to
- outguess the C-64's random number
- generator. If you guess correctly
- often enough, you may have ESP!
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- HEADER CHANGER
- This program allows you to change
- the header of any formatted disk.
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- SYS CHANGER
- Have you ever wanted to change the
- load address of a file? This
- program makes the task easy.
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- IMML
- This is a small machine language
- routine which allows you to create
- and play music while your program
- still executes.
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- ISSUE #8
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- REMEMBER IT
- Find the graphic match behind one
- of 45 doors. Inspired by the old
- game of 'Husker Do'.
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- SLOT MACHINE
- A great simulation of the ol' one
- arm bandits. Now you don't have to
- make a trip to Las Vegas.
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- CHEMISTRY
- Designed to help in the use of the
- periodic table. Searches by name,
- symbol, or atomic number.
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- LAZY MATH
- A great aid for around the house.
- No need to memorize formulas again.
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- ROMAN NUMBERS
- You've heard of binary to decimal,
- but how about decimal to Roman and
- vice versa? Also a great Roman
- numeral tutorial.
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- ADDRESS LABELER
- Now there's no need to handwrite
- 1,000 return mailing labels. Up to
- four lines per label can be used.
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- FLASH
- Have you ever wanted to flash
- text like an Apple user can? With
- this little jewel you can make up to
- 128 characters flash on your screen.
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- SLEEVE LISTS
- This program takes away the
- guessing about what's on a disk.
- Now you can have all the information
- printed on paper so you can see
- what's on the disk without loading a
- directory.
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- BAR CHART
- If you want to print a bargraph
- with your 1520 printer/plotter this
- is the program to use.
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- RUNNER
- With the recent craze for
- exercise, this is a great program
- for all of the joggers in the world.
- Keeps track of the pace needed for a
- specific finishing time.
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- SCREEN WOBBLE
- This is a great example of what
- you can do with a machine language
- interrupt routine.
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- ISSUE #9
- <March PowerPlay>
-
- POE ADVENTURE
- This adventure is loosely based
- upon the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
- See if you can collect all of the
- treasures.
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- COLUMNATION
- An example of how to format
- numeric output. This one is direct
- from Jim Butterfield.
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- HAIL
- Can you keep your head dry for
- forty seconds? This program shows
- just how much can be crammed into
- three program lines.
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- COLOR INTERRUPTOR
- Now you can halt a program
- whenever you want and change any of
- the screen colors such as
- background, border, and text.
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- DIRECTORY ALPHABETIZER
- With this program you can keep a
- record of what programs are on what
- disk.
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- GUITAR CHORD FINDER
- This program is dedicated to all
- of you musicians out there. Just by
- inputting a few facts, you can find
- the fingering of any note.
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- SPRITE CATALOG
- Create, edit, load, and save as
- many sprites as you want. Now you
- can have a disk full of your best
- sprites.
-
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- BIRTHDAY CARD
- Have you ever considered using the
- C-64 as a birthday card? Now you
- can create a more than memorable
- birthday card for your loved one.
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- ALARM CLOCK
- This program features large
- numbers for easy viewing. You can
- change things such as clock color
- and character.
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- IN BETWEEN
- This is the card game where you
- try to guess what card is coming off
- the deck next. You can bid or you
- can play it safe.
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- POKER
- A simulation of the well known
- game. Allows up to four players.
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- RESISTOR COLOR
- Now there is no need to search for
- that old technical manual. This
- gives you the resistance of any
- resistor based upon its colors.
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- COLORPRINT TEST
- If you do color film processing,
- this program is for you. Based upon
- factors which you input, this
- program tells you what course of
- action will produce the best color
- prints.
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- ISSUE #10
- <April Microcomputers>
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- DISK TO TAPE
- Back up your disks to tape. For
- use with your datasette.
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- TAPE TO DISK
- Restore your backup tapes to disk.
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- TRIAL AND ERROR
- Approximates answers to high
- powered polynomials.
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- BEATS
- Produces musical notes with audible
- pulsations.
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- SCALES
- Switch between equally tempered
- and diatonic scales.
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- TINKER TOOLS
- This uses SIMON'S BASIC to make
- graphic designs.
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- GADGET
- A utility program to append and
- renumber BASIC programs.
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- LAIR OF THE NECROMANCER
- Wind your way through this text
- adventure and defeat the evil
- necromancer.
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- BOX PUZZLES
- You won't solve these quirky
- puzzles unless you look at things
- with a twist.
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- LIFE EXPECTANCY
- How long will YOU live? Change a
- few habits and see what the effect
- could be.
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- I.Q. TEST
- A 'simple' test that measures how
- much common sense you have.
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- INTRODUCTIONS
- Another great musical piece from
- Tom Jeffries.
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- ISSUE #11
- <May PowerPlay>
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- ER <emergency room>
- Do you have what is takes to
- become an emergency room doctor?
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- FLASH
- Improve the speed and accuracy of
- your typing.
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- WORDSMITH
- Pit the computer's vocabulary
- against your own.
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- RECIPE FILER
- A great way to keep track of all
- your favorite recipes.
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- TRACE
- A must-have utility for any
- programmer.
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- IMPOSSIBLE
- Create programs which look really
- funny.
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- PROGRAM BOOT
- Make your programs RUN by them-
- selves.
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- RENUMBER
- Renumber just about any BASIC
- program.
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- BIT BANNER
- Produces huge banners to use at
- parties. A great way to show off
- your C-64.
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- COLOR SCHEME
- Keep the colors you like even
- after RUN/STOP RESTORE!
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- DISK ENLARGER
- Store more information on your
- disks. An April special.
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- LINE WRITER
- A simple word processor to send
- your typing to the printer.
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- GRAPH SIM 64
- An example of how fun serious
- computing can be.
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- LUNAR LANDER
- A real-time landing simulator.
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- EASTER
- Can you find the five hidden
- Easter eggs?
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- CONCENTRATION
- A great card game for you and your
- Commodore.
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- MASTERMIND
- A LOGO version of an old favorite.
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- BUZZ WORDS
- Use the built-in features of list
- processing in LOGO to create
- endless phrases.
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- ISSUE #12
- <June Microcomputers>
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- CHOPPER
- See how long you can escape the
- missiles in this great arcade game.
-
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- HOUSE INVENTORY
- Now you can keep track of exactly
- what you have in your house.
-
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- DOSPLUS
- Some great new additions to the
- old favorite DOS WEDGE.
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- DRAGON'S RIDDLES
- Answer the dragon's riddles to
- gain his magical music box.
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- JULY 4th
- A great example of how to use
- color and sound in your programs.
-
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- DALLAS
- Show off your C-64's sprite
- capabilities.
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- THREE DEEP
- A small routine which will greatly
- speed up your sorts
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- LIFE
- Turns your C-64 into a laboratory
- filled with bacteria!
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- GAUSS
- Solve multiple equations.
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- NET WORTH
- Produces a very professional
- looking net worth statement. A
- great thing to have when filling out
- financial paperwork.
-
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- DISDUMP
- Disassemble your C-64's memory and
- find out how some of those great
- machine-language routines work.
-
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- ARAS.CALC
- Calculate flexible amortization
- schedules. Change the situation
- to see how much money you can
- save.
-
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- BUDGET-MASTER
- Keep track of where your money
- goes every month. Find out where
- you might be spending too much.
-
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- MAGAZINE ENTRY
- Lets you type COMMODORE/PowerPlay
- programs without typos.
- This program is available on all
- LOADSTAR issues since Issue #9.
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