porter@inuxd.UUCP (J Porter) (12/02/83)
This here is a reprint of an article that I posted a while back.
It describes what the Midnite/PAPER is and where to get it. As
a news flash, the Midnite/PAPER will be available in your local
B. Dalton or Waldon Bookstore this month. Look for it.
Are you getting tired of all the fat in COMPUTE! Magazine?
Are you confused about what software is really worth
getting? Do you want the straight poop? Then you sound
like you need a subscription to the Midnite/PAPER. I had
been involved with the people that put this top grade
magazine out when I was getting my MSEE at the UofI
(Illinois, that is). For some reason, after graduating, I
let my subscription run out, but recently decided that I
ought to re-subscribe, and boy am I glad I did.
The Midnite/PAPER is published by a couple of United
Methodist Ministers in Central Illinois. The content is not
religious, but I just thought that it was amazing that a
minister could know more about micros that I do.
Specifically, Commodore micros. Jim and Ellen Strasma are
the husband and wife editors. Every other month, they write
up all the latest gossip on Commodore, plus, and more
importantly, they review very candidly almost every piece of
software available for Commodore micros. Well, maybe not
every piece, but darn near close. They have a little help
from regular contributors, of which I used to be one. So if
you have a VIC20, 64, PET, CBM, or SuperPET, you won't want
to miss a single issue.
The group also runs a disk exchange for public domain
software and machine language programs that users have
submitted (in ASM/TED/MAE format). Also with the Oct/Nov 82
issue the MIDNITE SOFTWARE GAZETTE combined with THE PAPER
to form the MIDNITE/PAPER. The PAPER section has handy
articles submitted by users. Just prior to this merger, Jim
and Ellen published THE WHOLE PET CATALOG - a complete
compendium of reviews since the inception of the MIDNITE
SOFTWARE GAZETTE in the Fall of 1980. Not only were all the
reviews listed here, but the publication gave a complete
listing of all public domain software available through the
Toronto PET Users Group. (Toronto has turned into the
Commodore capital of the world)
Now I suppose you're asking yourself how much this costs.
Well, subscriptions cost $23 US for six bi-monthly issues
and the WHOLE PET CATALOG cost just $8 postpaid. The
address is:
JIM OLDFIELD
THE MIDNITE/PAPER
635 MAPLE
MT. ZION, IL 62549
If anyone has any questions about Commodore stuff I can
probably answer it. I bought a Commodore before it was
fashionable to buy a Commodore Computer. Early 1980, that
is, and have expanded my system to have a VIC and 64 as the
prices have been made so attractive lately.
I will post some tidbits from the Midnite/PAPER from time to
time, as my fingers permit, so stay tuned.
Jeff Porter (inuxd!porter)
AT&T Consumer Products
formerly American Bell
formerly Bell Laboratories
and don't ask me how long
this new name will last
Indianapolis, IN
(317) 845-6214