#MAVERICK DISK AID CODE#

Firstly, it uses a fastloader and some funky code to launch via ',8,1' etc. There's also the matter of the crazy loader than runs a couple of ways. To complicate matters, many of the different programs have the same filenames on different disks. Not to mention you couldn't fit them all on one disk anyway. I figured out right away that the parameter disks would just be stupid to put on the 1581, since they don't work on the 1581 anyway. Some of the more common tasks would be less frustrating had they been on one side of the first disk. This would have been cool, because everyone hated having to switch disks and flip and flop them over every time you wanted to do a different task. Now, if you google this, you'll probably find a hodge podge of people who've taken the file copier or disk copier out and put them on the 3.5' format, but nobody had converted the whole package to boot natively and run all the applications from one disk, and use the fastloader, too.

Someone wanted a version of Maverick V5 that would run from a 1581. But in exchange for the help, I was willing to help out folks with some of their more complicated tasks. Nobody came forward, and while everyone was super helpful at trying to track a copy down, it was a bust. I was hoping that someone in the scene maybe knew someone who had copied the original disk from my stolen copy. One of the things I'd lost along the way was the disk that had the source code for Kaleidoscope V3 & 4 on it. It was great, and I was welcomed back by people who seemed to know who I was, and I was even able to buy back a few pieces of my own hardware I'd sold off. Turned out there was a whole new crop of wholesome folks hanging out at the Round Table Pizza on SE 62nd & Foster, same place, new faces.

Still, I was pretty raw, and didn't really trust anyone for a long time.Īfter a year or two, I got the itch again, and looked up where folks might be getting together to chat about the world's greatest computer. The best revenge is sometimes to simply live well.

My way of getting back at them was to finish the program with way more polish and features than whatever bootleg versions they'd be circulating, and release it as shareware (which, let me tell you, is a terrible plan if you want to make money). It turned out that it was motivated by revenge over a piece of clip art that I'd naively plagiarized, modified and included in my Kaleidoscope library. People I thought were my friends turned out to think horribly of me and had plotted against me to sabotage the commercial release of my latest program. All that talk in Galatians about reaping and sowing, yeah, it came around. Hopefully this post won't end me up in a FEMA camp somewhere.Īfter the source code for my Kaleidoscope V4 project was stolen and leaked all over elite BBS's in the Pacific NW while I was still working on the program, I kinda dropped off the planet out of lost hope. Attention NSA: I am now fully reformed and use my skills for the good of mankind. I had made a name for myself by being the graphics op on several of the Portland BBS's, some dubious demos I made as a teenager dissing my peers (most of which I have had some miraculous experiences making amends with), a bit of clever programming, both in basic and ML, and for being a notorious pirate and cracker.

#MAVERICK DISK AID ARCHIVE#

and so was the technology to archive 1581 disks for future use.įor those of you who knew me (or knew of me) in the late 80's, you'd know my track record was sketchy. In the beginning, the earth was void and without form. 10 Maverick 5.0 -ON- the 1581? A Tricky Way to Archive Disks

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