LOADSTAR COMPLEAT

Devlog

• Big update
  June 20, 2025 by rodneylives#updates

  Changes for 0.26 (taken straight from the changelog): - Some factual corrections made to the text files. Thanks Fender Tucker and Ricky Derocher! One of them was confusing Maurice Jones (the solitaire... Continue reading
• Text Search!
  June 18, 2025 by rodneylives#update, #search

  In addition to the usual bugfixes (I've started reporting on those in the version file in the main project's main directory), a new feature: text search through the documentation! You can also do a mo... Continue reading
• More fixes
  June 13, 2025 by rodneylives#Updates, #Bouncing Kamungas, #UpTime, #Expedition Amazon, #Dungeon, #TrueDriveEmulation

  Changes for 0.24: - Some programs on LS #15 didn't have their documentation or executables listed. Should be fixed now. - Bouncing Kamungas (LS039) wasn't working. It's technically fixed now, but it's... Continue reading
• Another bug fixed
  June 11, 2025 by rodneylives#update

  Argh! A change I made broke the issue, Other, StarExtra and UpTime lists. It should be fixed now... Continue reading
• More fixes and updates
  June 09, 2025 by rodneylives#update

  I ran a check for missing/misnamed text files and uncovered a whole pile of those, they should all be fixed. Other minor changes have been made that I've forgotten. Enjoy!... Continue reading
• Was broken, should now be fixed
  June 03, 2025 by rodneylives

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  #update, #fix

  Argh, the build of the Explorer that had been up for Windows was broken, I found out last night. It should work now. Grumble! Grimble gromble!... Continue reading
• Loadstar Main updated
  June 01, 2025 by rodneylives#update

  The menuing system has been improved, with progress bars displayed in menus and the text viewer. A number of errors in the data file have been corrected (LSQ128 issues should load now). The TTF remake... Continue reading
• Loadstar Explorer Menu Beta Released
  May 24, 2025 by rodneylives#release

  In the works for a couple of months, the "Loadstar Explorer" menu system is now available to peruse. I spent a lot of effort on it, and I know it has its quirks and flaws, but I wanted to get somethin... Continue reading

  
• Issue 114 should be fixed
  May 22, 2025 by rodneylives#fix

  I wrote a script to automatically check all the text and run files in my upcoming menu system to make sure all the data was correct. A lot of it wasn't. I spend some hours last night correcting it. Bu... Continue reading
• Fixed LSQ #1
  May 14, 2025 by rodneylives#update, #bugfix, #GEOS, #LoadstarQuarterly128

  It turns out there was an error in the d81 version of Loadstar Quarterly 128 issue #1. The error appears to be in other sources for the file, both online and in the archives on the original CD. I figu... Continue reading
• More Issues!
  May 10, 2025 by rodneylives

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  #update, #DaveMoorman

  Thanks to Kevin at loadstarce.com, we now also have all of the Dave Moorman issues in this collection, bringing the issue count up to the full 250! 250 is an incomplete issue, but it's here anyway! Is... Continue reading
• Initial Release on itch.io!
  April 18, 2025 by rodneylives

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  #release, #commodore64, #loadstar, #magazine, #fendertucker, #games, #art, #music, #puzzles

  LOADSTAR was a long-lived, possibly the longest-lived, of the microcomputer disk magazines. It lasted for 250 issues, of which the first 199 are included in this collection, in addition to a ton of ex... Continue reading