Posted By
Dunric
on 2006-03-15
03:37:31
|  My official goodbye to the Commodore community
Dear Commodore Users,
It is with much sadness and regret that I must bid
farewell to the Commodore community. In my ten plus
years on comp.sys.cbm, I truly enjoyed discussing
Commodore computers and peripherals. I have been a
Commodore user since 1983, but 2006 will be my last
year as a participant in anything Commodore (or even
computer) related.
In recent years comp.sys.cbm (and specifically, USENET
itself) has completely "de-evolved" into a forum of
randomly half-hearted posts which are seldom in
charter with the original spirit of the newsgroup
system. At some point in life, people step away from
their hobbies and chosen fields of interest because
they either have lost interest or no longer feel their
presence is welcomed.
By the fall of 2006, I also will be disengaging
entirely from computers in general, maintaining only
work related internet contact via email. In other
words, I am walking away from the past 20+ years of my
time as a computer hobbyist/programmer at the end of
the 2006 calendar year.
All of my creative efforts within the Commodore
community (and computers in general) will cease
entirely after December 31, 2006. Any games or
utilities I release to the Commodore community (or
Windows/Linux) before then will only be sporadic in
nature and on an energy required basis (e.g. when I
feel like releasing something new).
I will keep my Commodore-related website up on
Geocities and Tripod for as long as they maintain a
business as a web host. For archival purposes, you can
always download my Commodore games and view my
Commodore website at:
http://members.tripod.com/~panks/tcu.html
I also have many of my other Commodore games here:
http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html
To the fans of my many Commodore adventure games, I
can only extend my warmest feelings of appreciation
for your continued support and loving guidance in
helping to encourage my development projects in the
spirit of public domain software. I have never charged
a penny for my work, in any computing system (modern
or classic), and I will never charge any money for
anything I ever write or contribute to society.
My last game project for this year will be the 2006
Interactive Fiction contest, followed by one more
Commodore 64/128 adventure game there after (announced
via Homstead mailing list). Once those final projects
are completed, my 20+ years as a computer enthusiast,
programmer and hobbyist will come to a sudden and
abrupt halt.
As for my Commodore equipment and software, I will
hold onto them until my future daughter is born and
introduce her to the wonders of computers via the
Commodore 64. At an appropriate time in the future
thereafter, all of my Commodore equipment, games and
software will be donated to an appropriate Goodwill
foundation.
I will post perhaps one or two more messages this
entire year to Homestead, but thereafter my
communication with the Commodore community (and the
Internet in general) will cease entirely. Sadly, I
will be walking away from computers forever (my own
choice). I apologize for this abrupt choice, but
lifestyle choices and my desire to pursue a career
field in my chosen degree of Sociology outweighs any
contributions I could ever make in the computing
field.
And while this is, indeed, a very sad and bittersweet
parting for me, I hope that my time in the Commodore
community throughout the years has at least helped one
person in enjoying his or her Commodore computer that
much more.
Thank you for supporting me, in spite of some of my
many unorthodox postings to comp.sys.cbm over the
years. I apologize for such a lengthy post, but other
than an announcement sometime in June or July of my
final Commodore adventure game, this is truly my last
communication with the Commodore community and
computers that I have loved and cherished so dearly
for over 20 years.
God Bless.
Signed,
Paul Allen Panks (AKA 'Dunric')
dunric@yahoo.com
Former CBM User (January 1983-March 2006)
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