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Zippy Zapp
- CA, USA
Very cool. Looking forward to checking it out.
Recently I acquired Issue #1 of a GEOS-focused disk magazine called "Chrome Mag". This was published in the year 2000, and you have to load up GEOS or some derivative in order to view the articles, copy the files, etc.
Issue one, named "Demos," is called this because it has a few GEOS-targeted programs that are, well, demos. At first I thought, "Ooh, people made coding demos for GEOS?" because the C64 and Amiga have warped my brain. No, this is more like limited feature shareware of a few things, like Mega Patch 3 and so on.
But it also has some interesting articles. One is by Maurice Randall, the creator of Wheels, where he writes at-length about all the various RAM options for GEOS and Wheels and how they compare. It's actually a lot like an article he could have written for Commodore World in the 90s sans photos.
There are also a few images we can load up in GEOpaint, which are 2-3 screens tall. Some interesting stuff...
What's also interesting is images of these disks are nowhere to be found online, even a quarter of a century later. In fact if you want issues of Chrome Mag today, the original publisher will still sell them to you if you care enough to ask in the right place (which I did). I guess I'll at least see what he's charging but I'm not going to go crazy.
- Cute if inefficient little GEOS-styled notepad-ish menu with multiple pages.
- My screen is intentionally blue by choice.
Issue one, named "Demos," is called this because it has a few GEOS-targeted programs that are, well, demos. At first I thought, "Ooh, people made coding demos for GEOS?" because the C64 and Amiga have warped my brain. No, this is more like limited feature shareware of a few things, like Mega Patch 3 and so on.
But it also has some interesting articles. One is by Maurice Randall, the creator of Wheels, where he writes at-length about all the various RAM options for GEOS and Wheels and how they compare. It's actually a lot like an article he could have written for Commodore World in the 90s sans photos.
There are also a few images we can load up in GEOpaint, which are 2-3 screens tall. Some interesting stuff...
- Cropped here in such a way to avoid the shock of a pixelated 2-color bare breast.
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Zippy Zapp
- CA, USA
Interesting. Thomas Gosser also did CPU magazine (the Commodore one from the late 90s) Here is a sample of that.
Maybe you have seen this already but check this out on Zimmers as it talks about the beginnings of the mag
Maybe you have seen this already but check this out on Zimmers as it talks about the beginnings of the mag