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- STARGAB
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- LOADSTAR has always prided itself
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- on having something for everyone from
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- housewives to hackers, tyros to
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- tycoons. But this month, we have
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- really outdone ourselves with a truly
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- eclectic batch of programs and
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- features. So settle back and listen
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- to Shubert's "Unfinished Symphony",
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- brought to you by Alan Gardner, while
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- we fill you in on the details.
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- Heading the games this month is
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- Sean Wagle's ARACHNIA, an
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- arcade-style game that really tests
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- the reflexes. For the calmer sort,
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- we have HAUNTED HOUSE, a text
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- adventure game from Joe Garrett, and
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- GINNY64, a challenging gin rummy game
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- from Royal C. Jones.
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- As for utility programs, ANY
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- PRINTER from Gary Fields translates
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- Commodore graphics keys into English
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- and ASCII, which any printer can
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- understand and print. The output is
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- much easier to read than normal
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- output-- a great aid if you study
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- program listings to learn new
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- programming techniques.
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- For your listening pleasure, Joe
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- Garrett and Jim Weiler have collected
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- a selection of favorite tunes in
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- LOADSTAR JUKEBOX. And for the
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- mathematically minded, Al Vekovius'
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- MATH REFLECTIONS demonstrates the
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- Central Limit Theorem as well as
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- testing the uniformity of the
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- Commodore Random Number Generator.
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- And last, but not least, two new
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- features appear in this month's
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- LOADSTAR. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS:
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- AN OBSERVER'S NOTEBOOK, by Jon
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- Barnes, promises to be an exploration
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- of the human side of the Computer
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- Revolution.
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- And to cater to your aesthetic
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- sensibilities, LOADSTAR is proud to
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- announce the opening of our digital
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- fine arts gallery, Francois
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- Tremaine's GALLERIE D'ART, conceived
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- and produced by Jerry Jones. This
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- month's reproductions and commentary
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- focus on the great Spanish painter,
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- El Greco.
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- Add to this our usual grab bag of
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- news, reviews, hints and tips, and
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- exchange of Commodore information,
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- and you should begin to understand
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- that this issue of LOADSTAR is
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- something special.
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