What's this?
Magic Disk 64 was a commercial diskmag which was popular in germany in the late 80s/early 90s. On this site
we want to make all of it's textual content accessable.
Everything on this site except for this index.html page is automatically generated from D64 images of the
original disks using a bunch of magic programs and scripts.
Full Index
all Graphics (prepare for slow loading)
Tutorials
BASIC Kurs (ub)
Grafik Kurs (ub)
Musik Kurs 1 (ms)
Musik Kurs 2 (xap/md/wk)
Assembler Kurs (rt/wk)
Assembler Kurs (Wiederholung) (rt/wk)
16 Farben Scrolling (Hannes Sommer)
Sprite Kurs (incomplete due to Magic Disk beeing no more released)
IRQ Kurs (ih/ub)
CIA Kurs (ub)
Floppy Intern (Frank Boldewin)
Floppy Kurs (ub)
Virenprogrammierkurs
Pack'n'Save (cd)
Spiele knacken - mit Freezern 0 Problem (cj/wk)
Tips & Tricks - mehr als 16 Farben durch Mischen
Tips & Tricks - CIA als Echtzeituhr
Tips & Tricks - Flackerfreie Laufschrift
Hardware
(12/87) Dauerfeuermodul
(1/88) IRQ Bremse
(2/88) Speicherbereichsanzeige
(3/88) Sprachausgabe mit SP0256 AL2
(4/88) Userport I/O multiplexer
(5/88) Pseudo Stereo
(6/88) A/D Wandler (Sampler)
(7/88) Userport I/O Erweiterung
(8/88) Scanner im Eigenbau
(8/88) 7 Segment Anzeige am Userport
(9/88) Dekodierung mit dem 7442
(10/88) Elektronischer Diskettenlocher
(12/88) RS232 Interface
(3/89) Echtzeituhr am Userport
(7/89) Wählscheibe ade!
(8/89) Komfort Telefon Programm
(1/89) Probleme und Lösungen
Wanted!
- high quality scans of the "Magic Disk 64 Classic" issues (08/95 - 01/96) for OCRing
Staff
Adolf Silbermann - Geschäftsleitung
Matthias Kolb - Verantwortlich für Duplizierung
(? ) A.Wiederhold - Programmtechnischer Leiter
(? ) Christian Geltenpoth (Chefredakteur) - Editorial
(cs) ? - Texte
(cd) Christian Dombacher - Articles [The Sir]
(cj) ? - Articles
(? ) Frank Boldewin - Articles
(fb) Florian Brich (Freier Mitarbeiter) - Articles
(hs) Hannes Sommer - Articles [Hannes/Cosmos Designs]
(ih) Ivo Herzeg - Articles, Magsystem Programming [Mr.Cursor/X-Ample]
(md) ? - Articles
(ms) Markus Schneider - Articles [Markus Schneider/X-Ample]
(rt) Ralf Trabhardt - Articles
(om) Oliver Menne (Freier Mitarbeiter) - Articles
(sg) Stefan Gnad (Freier Mitarbeiter) - Articles
(ub) Uli Basters (Freier Mitarbeiter) - Articles
(wk) Walter Konrad (Leitender Redakteur) - Articles [Walter/Double Density]
(xap) X-Ample Team - Articles
Professor Plodder - Leserbriefe
Technical
11/87 first Magsystem (last used in 9/88)
- 40 Characters per line
- character encoding 0
2/88 Magsystem supports packed Koala Images now
- introduces 1st encoding for schematic symbols (last used in 9/88)
10/88 new Magsystem (last used in 7/89)
- 53 Characters per line
- character encoding 1
- introduces 2nd encoding for schematic symbols (last used in 3/89)
8/89 new Magsystem (modern system by Ivo Herzeg)
- character encoding 2
9/89 TIMEX protected issue (needs special care) [does not work in emu]
- not even invisible directory entries
- character encoding 2
10/89 (extract like a timex issue)
- character encoding 2
4/90 first TIMEX protected issue (last was 5/91)
- main program can not be extracted
- no directory entries
- character encoding 2
6/91 new Magsystem (icon system)
- character encoding 2
11/91 updated Magsystem (icon system, new bootloader) (last used 7/95 ?)
- character encoding 2
1/94 first "Play Time C64 Three-In-One" Issue
8/95 first "Magic Disk 64 Classic" Issue
1/96 last "Magic Disk 64 Classic" Issue, last Issue ever published
TODO
extraction:
- check colors of koalas which should be hires: 5/91 (cia kurs) 6/91 (cia kurs) 8/91 (cia kurs) 9/91 (cia kurs) 7/92 (floppy kurs)
- check umlauts in various issues and determine wether wrong ones are typos or actual decoding bugs
html generation:
- add detection for listitems
- improve headline detection/detect more different style headlines
BUGS
- 4/89 inline gfx in "news" ?
- 8/89 either broken D64 or error on original Disk. Utilities/Number Speech contains garbage characters in the first line. decompression failed! (8/0) outfile: MD8908/MD8908-UTILITIES-EFFECT_MACHINE.txt
- 9/89 garbage text in GAME-TEST-STREET_SPORT_SOCCER_-_EPYX_+_U.S.GOLD (fails to unpack) decompression failed! (63/0) outfile: MD8909/MD8909-GAME-TEST-STREET_SPORT_SOCCER_-_EPYX_+_U.S.GOLD.koala missing game-test/"jaws"
- 3/90 errors during extraction, although issue looks ok
- 8/90 missing: "magic disk club"
- 11/90 missing: forum/"leserbriefe teil1" help/"spielregeln" intern/"hotline" vorschau magic club news
- 12/90 ... 3 bogus files are extracted MD9012/MD9012-XXX-255 MD9012/MD9012-XXX-275 MD9012/MD9012-XXX-438 missing: cia kurs 2-2 cia kurs 2-3 cia kurs 2-4
- 2/91 in Pegasus Basic Anleitung Teil 2 there are garbled chars where it should be a 'PI' character. this is fixed by properly decoding.
- 4/91 decompression failed! (ff/0) outfile: MD9104/MD9104-KURSE-CIA-KURS_TEIL_6-4.txt
- 8/91 "Vorschau" missing
- 4/93 "tips & tricks" missing ?
- 2/94 "impressum" is same as "inhalt" ?
- 3/94 "tips & tricks","impressum" missing ?
- 6/94 "impressum" missing ?
- 7/94 "impressum" missing ?
- 12/94 "tips & tricks", "impressum" missing ?
LOG
15/08/2008 - some detail fixes. 11/08/2008 - finished typing in all the index info for the timex issues, everything should have proper names now - fixed 1/89,2/89,3/89,4/89 (second sides) - fixed 7/89 "bastelware" (second side) - fixed 12/87 "software" (second side) 2/08/2008 - images converted to png - removed the 11/87 images from the archive 1/08/2008 - various html generation fixes 31/07/2008 - 11/88 defined "ok" :) - encoding 2 fixes 30/07/2008 - encoding 1 fixes - encoding 0 fixes - fixed linegfx: 2/88 3/88 4/88 5/88 6/88 7/88 8/88 9/88 10/88 12/88 3/89 - packed koalas from 2/88-6/89 are extracted and depacked correctly now.
