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From: Don Judy
Date: 1998-09-23
Subject: Re: To Cameron: MAGIC DESK (again)

Christian David Johannesdotter wrote:
>
> Howdy Cameron,
> I´ve just been to your "SECRET WEAPONS" site... Cool! Check this out: I
> know a guy who owns a 232! It was just a proto type and had some software
> bugs... SOLDER who is also on this list fixed it. (That's what I heard!)
> Earlier on this list I asked about the "MAGIC DESK" GUI which was supposed
> to be one of the optional programs to come with the plus/4. I have an
> article about the CEBIT 1984 which stated that this one was running on a
> plus/4. However, no one I know has ever seen this program. In a different
> article about a query on the C64 version is stated that the programmer
> left commodore... Since you seem to be able to get in contact with CBM
> people please ask ´em about MAGIC DESK on plus/4. The article mentioned
> above said that "scratched files were flying into a trashcan"... on plus/4
> in 1984, I can´t believe it! Hey guys, I just thought about this... APPLE
> saw MAGIC DESK and said "You can´t release this, it's violating our
> copyrights!" Remember what they did to GEM? OK, I got carried away... BUT
> what happened to MAGIC DESK on plus/4?
> Furthermore, I have an old issue of "RUN" magazine (German) which shows a
> 264... Instead of "plus/4" it really says "264" on the case. Additionally,
> the keyboard layout is a bit "funny", e.g. some keys are blank and stuff
> like that.
> What about the 364's numeric keyboard? Is there an easy way to "recover"
> this on standard plus/4s?
>
> See ya,
> CHICKEN/BOOGERCUBES
>
> P.S.
> What I like best about the C128 crew is the "LINK ARMS, DONT MAKE THEM!"
> statement! Do you know who suggested that?
>
> --this message went through the plus4@c64.rulez.org emailing list---

Hey, Ch.,

Never saw it for the Plus/4, but I had the Magic Desk cartridge for the C64; it had the trashcan icon, a printer icon, a typewriter icon, a file cabinet icon, and a telephone icon, maybe some other stuff. It was somewhat similar in function to the Plus/4 builtin prgs, I think there was even a 100 line limit on the "typewriter". The phone icon didn't work, they said they were going to add functions to the cartridge in an upgrade, but that never happened either. It was definitely Apple like.
Somewhere I still have it on disk for the 64, but it's not really very useful. It was somewhat similar in function to the Plus/4 builtin stuff.
I'll see if I can find the documentation, which was minimal.

Regards, DJ