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- LOADSTAR HOME TOWER NEWS
-
- by Dave Moorman
-
-
- Home Tower users are lucky! On
- their new, emense hard drive is a disk
- image called UTILITY.D81. In fact,
- when they boot up the Tower, device 15
- is pointing to UTILITY.D81.
-
- That is my own, all purpose
- Utility disk. I put it on drive 9 with
- VICE, so that most programs I will
- need are there, ready for easy access.
- Programs like Edstar and Mr.Edstar.
- Lee Novak's Dissolver, Linker, and
- Packer. Art programs like Sprite On!,
- Doodle, Advanced OCP, and STB
- Print. And my favorite assembler is
- there, BASSEM.
-
- Now, there are a lot of other
- utilities useful in the production of
- LOADSTAR that probably won't interest
- you. But now you have it, the good,
- the bad, and the ugly!
-
- Just had an email from Nick
- Copland, whose 64HDD drives the Tower.
- Nick is working on a new connection/
- program called PowerLoader that will
- make access 30 to 50 times faster.
-
- Let me see if I got that right: 30
- to 50 times faster. The Tower runs a
- little faster than a 1541 but not as
- fast as a CMD HD. But kick it into
- gear with PowerLoader and --
-
- [Streaming Video!] "Streaming"
- means that the program doesn't have to
- stop to load. With PowerLoader, the
- data just keeps on flowing. Nick is
- working on conversion programs for the
- PC which will make AVI computer videos
- C-64 VIC II compatible. This will all
- require a parallell cable and perhaps
- a new ROM chip for the C-64.
-
- What is exceedingly cool about it
- all is that this new technology is the
- result of careful thought about
- existing technology. Nick and LOADSTAR
- are both dedicated, in our own ways,
- to break the death grip of commercial
- consumerism. Nick finds new ways of
- using what the economy calls junk. We
- find new ways to entertain you with
- our obsolescence.
-
- Another note: Even though this
- version of 64HDD is freeware, we pass
- along a royalty to Nick for the use of
- 64HDD in the Tower. Since the Home
- Tower is a commercial venture, we
- think it is only fair to compensate
- Nick for his genius.
-
- But now he has sent me coupons to
- send to Home Tower owners, good for
- $10 off on other and future 64HDD
- software or hardware.
-
- If you have your Tower -- again
- Congratulations. If you have been
- waiting, remember:
-
- January 10, 2003
-
- is the end of the $200 price for the
- hardware Tower package (hardware/
- cable/software). After the tenth, it
- will go up to $250.
-
- DMM
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