Around 1991, shortly after I was gifted a Commodore 64 Test Pilot Bundle for my birthday, I convinced my parents that buying me a printer was not only a sound financial decision, but a wise investment in my education. Instead of using the computer solely as a gaming machine, I could be writing dissertations, publishing

The Commodore 64 had one of the most vibrant software ecosystems of any home computer in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the most fascinating parts of that ecosystem was Loadstar, a disk-based magazine that delivered games, utilities, articles, music, and graphics directly to C64 users. Loadstar debuted in 1984, only a couple of years