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- D I S K O V E R Y
- by Dave Moorman
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-
- First off, let me apologize to all
- of you who have waited with bated
- breath by your mailbox for the next
- issue of LOADSTAR. I guess I have been
- pastor here at Holly too long. The job
- just gets busier every year. When I
- put the issue together, zuchinni was
- "good and ripe," and the political
- climate of the United States was just
- making a huge weather change. Now an
- incredible amount of snow covers the
- ground of southeast Colorado, a new
- Congress has begun, and [finally] we
- are able to put this issue in the
- mail.
-
- As I look through this issue, I
- note that I have done most of the
- contributions. In a way, that makes
- this an "ego-zine." I apologize. Next
- month, we have material from Brian
- Crosthwaite, Ricky Derocher, Jane
- Jones, and other Masters of the C-64
- to enrich our experience.
-
- This issue is, as it were, a
- repository of Utilities and Tools that
- have made creation on the C-64 a lot
- of fun for me. I suppose no one else
- in the country or the world gets the
- kind of kick I do when I put together
- a piece of (I hope) entertaining
- software. That is why I do this -- and
- evidently others don't.
-
- Which is OK. We all have our
- hobbies. But some day, perhaps in the
- far future, a 14 year-old kid will
- find a 30-in-one joystick that
- granddad hacked into a real C-64. And
- that kid gets the bug, the infection,
- the crazy idea that the greatest
- computer game in the world is
- programming a computer.
-
- And, with a bit (or byte) of luck,
- this issue will be there, offering
- tools, utilities, and ideas that will
- spur on his/her desire to create.
-
- OK, probably not. I mean, when
- kids get VPods and have MTV with them
- 24/7, who will want to be creative?
-
- But on a more upbeat note: During
- this long hiatus, I have received a
- number of phone calls from Ricky
- Derocher and emails from Lee Novak.
- Some incredible new software is coming
- over the horizon. We are not dead yet.
-
- One thing Ricky brought up just
- yesterday was that a great many of us
- have succumbed to the real necessity
- of PCs, and do our Commodoring via
- VICE. This gives us great freedom to
- easily move between various C=
- platforms, and enjoy some otherwise
- costly extras. For example, adding an
- REU to a C-64 is no big deal with VICE
- 1.07 or higher. The question I want to
- explore is how to use it for more
- exciting computing?
-
- Also, the VIC 20, Plus 4, and
- other C= machines are virtually
- available. Perhaps we need to explore
- software for these computers as well
- as we round the last corner of
- LOADSTAR's brilliant run.
-
- Anyway, we are still at it,
- producing interactive entertainment
- for the greatest hobbyist computers
- ever created. And if you have a
- project of any sort, get it finished
- up and share it with all of LOADSTAR's
- galaxy of loyal readers.
-
- DMM
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