Softdisk

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Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It was affiliated and partly owned by paper magazine Softalk at founding, but survived its demise. The company has been known by a variety of names, including Softdisk Magazette, Softdisk Publishing, Softdisk, Inc., Softdisk Internet Services, Softdisk, L.L.C., and Magazines On Disk. Softdisk is the former workplace of several of the founders of id Software. Publications included Softdisk for the Apple II; Loadstar for the Commodore 64; Big Blue Disk (later On Disk Monthly and Softdisk PC), The Gamer’s Edge, and PC Business Disk for the IBM PC; Diskworld (later Softdisk for Mac) and DTPublisher (specializing in desktop publishing) for the Apple Macintosh; Softdisk G-S for the Apple IIGS; Softdisk for Windows for Microsoft Windows, published from 1994–1999; and Shareware Spotlight, a short-lived publication featuring the best Shareware offerings for IBM PC compatibles. By the late 1990s, these publications were discontinued, although Loadstar had a continued life as an independent company catering to a cult following of Commodore buffs. Big Blue Disk was a monthly disk magazine that was published by Softdisk for IBM PC and compatibles that began publication in 1986. It required 256k of memory. Softdisk was sued by IBM for trademark infringement over the use of the name "Big Blue" in 1989.