In the years 1990–92 Brian Boese was a regular contributor to Loadstar, a disk magazine for the Commodore 64, for which he created a total of eight programs and a title graphic/text file:
- Biorhythm Machine (76: Helpware)
- Sliding Blocks (77: Brainware)
- Tile Stylist (85: Utilityware)
- Solitaires Supreme (87: Brainware)
- Faces (89: Zero Page)
- 14-15 Puzzle (89: Brainware)
- Stack 'Em (90: Funware)
- Switch 'Em (92: Brainware)
- Seek-A-Sort (96: Utilityware)
Brian Boese himself describes Switch 'Em as follows:
I am not 100% certain what this is any more. I've got a good guess though. It was probably a pair of puzzles, where you had to swap two sets of pegs, so that each was where the other colour started. You can only move one set of pegs to the left (either by one space, or by jumping over another peg), and the other set can only move right:
xxxx.ooooThe other one was a BIT more complicated:
xxx xxx xx.oo ooo oooOne set can only move left or up, the other set can only move right or down.
- Gamebase 64: I got the screenshot here. They have entries for all five of Brian Boese's games.
Loadstar Magazine
The Loadstar magazine is still extant, though it is not sold on disks any more, if you subscribe, it will be mailed to you as a ZIP file. The first 199 issues, as well as several selections, are available on CD-ROM.
- Loadstar Compleat
LOADSTAR was one of the very first disk-magazines ever published. In 1982 Jim Mangham got the idea of a monthly magazine on disk filled with programs, graphics and text that people would run on their computer. In 1984 the first issue of LOADSTAR, a magazine for the Commodore 64/128 computer was launched and over the next 15 years and 199 issues, a LOT of stuff was published on these disk magazines. Now, every bit of it has been converted to fit on one CD that you can run on your PC — and there's still room on the CD for more old LOADSTAR things like music, JPGs of the color covers of the issues, and much, much more.
- The LOADSTAR Tower
