rodneylives
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Hello everyone! Sorry to be quiet, I had a bit of an accident which reduced my computer usage for a bit, but I'm recovering now.
Thank you! I will.Welcome! Loadstar is very special - but sadly underrated.
Unfortunately, Fender's archive isn't perfect (someone changed the menu system on issues #45-74).
Get fixed images of these issues here:
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Loadstar 45 through 74 Fixed Commodore 64 : Loadstar : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a collection of Loadstar issues #45-#74 restored to original format.For some reason, the menu (presenter) on these issues was changed on TheCompleat...archive.org
There's an issue #200.Thank you! I will.
I have a question, is there no issue #200? As you know, Fender's archive leaves off at #199 and your archive here begins at #201.
Wow! Thank you again!There's an issue #200.
If you need any help finding any Loadstar specific disks, let me know!Wow! Thank you again!
If Linux is a problem, perhaps I can help out. I've spent my entire career developing on and for Linux. Some of my code is in the kernel and many other projects.I have not given up my ambitions to create a nice explorer program and list of highlights, although the fact that I'm running Linux now is a little bit of an obstacle perhaps.
Greetings. We started off with just offering the Dave Moorman years of issues 201-250 since we had received his permission first and then we started adding the additional original 1-199 issues from Fender after talking with him but I got disrupted by some life things.I have a question, is there no issue #200? As you know, Fender's archive leaves off at #199 and your archive here begins at #201.
As I mentioned to rodneylives in a direct message last night, all of the text files from issues 30-199 have already been extracted, formatted, and delineated nicely in the archive Fender shared with me in March. I'll include what I wrote to rodneylives:Greetings. We started off with just offering the Dave Moorman years of issues 201-250 since we had received his permission first and then we started adding the additional original 1-199 issues from Fender after talking with him but I got disrupted by some life things.
Honestly, one of the things that really slowed me down was working on going through each issues to create an index of what was on each issue since I couldn't figure out a way of extracting the data directly from the disk image files. You can see what I was going for by viewing the entry for Uptime Magazine issue #21 below.
Uptime Magazine issue #21 for the Commodore 64 & 128.
Since I got behind I was thinking of going ahead and doing a bulk add of all of the issues and then going back retroactively to add the index description, just haven't had time to do it yet. "Time is the fire in which burn..."
In the archive there exists a folderCompleat LOADSTAR/LS Texts
which contains a text-file of text-files for each issue 30-199. Each file is formatted to include delineations of each text file from that issue. The subfiles begin with a heading likeFROM LS FILE:"T.DARWIN'S BOOT"
and continue until either it reaches another heading or the end of file. Please note, though each file does end with**** End of Text ****
that string is present in the text viewer within Presenter. I've found it very useful to see rather than looking at the line # of # lines indicator.
When I get back home I'll have to take another look; I was aware of those files but at the moment I don't recall what issue I ran into with trying to extract the data from them.As I mentioned to rodneylives in a direct message last night, all of the text files from issues 30-199 have already been extracted, formatted, and delineated nicely in the archive Fender shared with me in March. I'll include what I wrote to rodneylives:
I managed to extract that information, it's the foundation of my gigantic spreadsheet of Loadstar items! Do you want a copy? If you want to get the information yourself, the key is the FEATURES file in every issue from 45 on. FEATURES is in earlier issues too, but at some point they were using files named things like FEATURES11 and FEATURES21, for different menus. The format from 45 on seems more consistent.Greetings. We started off with just offering the Dave Moorman years of issues 201-250 since we had received his permission first and then we started adding the additional original 1-199 issues from Fender after talking with him but I got disrupted by some life things.
Honestly, one of the things that really slowed me down was working on going through each issues to create an index of what was on each issue since I couldn't figure out a way of extracting the data directly from the disk image files. You can see what I was going for by viewing the entry for Uptime Magazine issue #21 below.
Uptime Magazine issue #21 for the Commodore 64 & 128.
Since I got behind I was thinking of going ahead and doing a bulk add of all of the issues and then going back retroactively to add the index description, just haven't had time to do it yet. "Time is the fire in which burn..."