Comments on: Good PDF, Bad PDF http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1172 Jason Scott's Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rob "Flack" O'Hara http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1172/comment-page-1#comment-4462 Rob "Flack" O'Hara Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:15:32 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1172#comment-4462 Compare that to the <a href="http://www.ramblehouse.com/loadstarcompleat.htm" rel="nofollow">Loadstar Collection</a>, which includes (cut/paste): ~ All 199 issues of LOADSTAR in .d64 and .d81 format ~ All 42 issues of LOADSTAR 128 in .d64 format ~ .TXT files of all of the text on the issues for fast searching on your PC ~ All 21 issues of UpTime (a rival disk magazine that LOADSTAR soundly defeated and bought) ~ JPGs of all of the color covers of the issues when LOADSTAR was sold in stores ~ PDFs of all 73 issues of The LOADSTAR Letter, Jeff Jones' excellent newsletter companion to LOADSTAR ~ MP3s of selected Knees Calhoon songs ~ .d64 files of every LOADSTAR product published separately from the monthly issues: the Compleat Bible, the Compleat Programmer, all five LOADSTAR Extras, Barbara Schulak's puzzles, etc. ~ All of Dave Marquis' SID and MIDI music ~ All of Walt Harned's artwork -- Walt is the most prolific artist ever for the Commodore computer ~ and whatever else I could find from the historic LOADSTAR archives. Total price? $24. At that price you could buy this and a new (albeit lower end) Dell Computer and still come in under $239. Compare that to the Loadstar Collection, which includes (cut/paste):

~ All 199 issues of LOADSTAR in .d64 and .d81 format
~ All 42 issues of LOADSTAR 128 in .d64 format
~ .TXT files of all of the text on the issues for fast searching on your PC
~ All 21 issues of UpTime (a rival disk magazine that LOADSTAR soundly defeated and bought)
~ JPGs of all of the color covers of the issues when LOADSTAR was sold in stores
~ PDFs of all 73 issues of The LOADSTAR Letter, Jeff Jones’ excellent newsletter companion to LOADSTAR
~ MP3s of selected Knees Calhoon songs
~ .d64 files of every LOADSTAR product published separately from the monthly issues: the Compleat Bible, the Compleat Programmer, all five LOADSTAR Extras, Barbara Schulak’s puzzles, etc.
~ All of Dave Marquis’ SID and MIDI music
~ All of Walt Harned’s artwork — Walt is the most prolific artist ever for the Commodore computer
~ and whatever else I could find from the historic LOADSTAR archives.

Total price? $24. At that price you could buy this and a new (albeit lower end) Dell Computer and still come in under $239.

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