Digital Talk 101 C64 Disk Magazine
Updated 4 January 2024
What is a Disk Magazine?
The Commodore C64 is the ideal retro platform for demos, new games releases, and music synthesizers. Take a look at why the Commodore 64 remains popular to this day. Why buy a boring printed magazine? You can directly load up the digital experience on your Commodore C64. Your choices can be the Classic Commodore C64, the more advanced Commodore C128 or one of the many (free and commercial) Commodore C64 emulators. Magazines are a great source of news on the scene and quality links to the latest projects.
As a fan of the Commodore 64, I am familiar with demo group disk magazines. These magazines were essentially digital publications distributed on floppy disks and created by demo groups, which were groups of programmers, artists, and musicians who collaborated to create impressive demos that showcased the capabilities of the C64. These disk magazines contained articles, interviews, reviews, and of course, demos created by the group. They were a way for the demo groups to share their work and connect with the larger C64 community. As someone who enjoys exploring the creative potential of this classic machine, I always look forward to getting my hands on a new demo group disk magazine.
Reading in the Digital
The magazine opens with a Galencia tribute screen in classic Commodore C64 style. At this point, you know you are being transported back to 8-bit heaven. The Digital Talk title screen loads up. The magazine is predominantly German language but there are English language articles as well. The magazine is enormous and spans 4 disk images.
The Digital Talk disk magazine has some interesting options that we have not seen on other disk magazines. Your first choice is to load the music and text articles into memory all at once. The initial loading takes longer but there are less interruptions when reading the magazine. The overall menu system is both usable and full of digital glamour.
Is the magazine any good?
The Digital Talk group has been release disk magazines for the Commodore C64 for a very long time. So long in fact that this is release one-hundred-and-one. The first set of autoload articles are mostly in German. We recommend that you flick through them as the links are very useful, if a little tiresome to manually type off the screen into a web browser There are plenty of other tricks, hacks and trainers supplied with the Digital Talk magazine. But we will let you discover these gifts for yourself.
The demos included in this Commodore C64 disk magazine are:
- Slipstream
- Mousetest V2
- 2K Race
- Galencia 1.5 (10 level demo)
- It´s Magic 2 (demo version)
Digital Talk 101 Screenshots
Angry Alien™ Review
Angry Alien speaks…
Digital Talk 101 is a nostalgic supernova in the universe of Commodore C64 disk magazines.
Its retro charm and dedication to the classic 8-bit era are commendable.
The magazine's dual-language approach broadens its galactic appeal,
though the dominance of German may send English-speaking readers into a black hole.
The integrated music and article loading feature is a stroke of genius, reminiscent of a well-orchestrated symphony of stars.
The demos, particularly Galencia 1.5
, are like discovering hidden planets in the retro gaming galaxy.
Despite its online presence flickering out like a distant star,
this issue remains a luminous beacon for C64 enthusiasts.
A solid 4 Angry Aliens™, for boldly going where few disk magazines still venture
Digital Talk 101 download
The original Digital Talk website has gone down and is no longer available. There is a shadown of its former self on Git Hib. Edition 101 of the magazine has gone dark, even on the wayback machine. This is why we are crying out about the digital dark age.
Download
- Digital Talk #101 Disk 1
- Digital Talk #101 Disk 2
- Digital Talk #101 Disk 3
- Digital Talk #101 Disk 4
- Digital Talk #101 CD sleeve poster
