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Diskworld

Diskworld was a disk magazine

Disk magazine

A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag, and also known by the portmanteau magazette , is a magazine that is distributed in electronics form to be read using computers....
for the Apple Macintosh computer system, published by Softdisk

Softdisk

Softdisk is a computer program and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines ....
beginning in 1988. It was a sister publication of Softdisk
Softdisk (disk magazine)

Softdisk , originally Softdisk Magazette, was a disk magazine for the Apple II computer line, published from 1981 through 1995. It was the first publication of the company that was also known as Softdisk, which would go on to publish disk magazines for other systems, other software, and later be involved in Internet access, hosting, an...
for the Apple II, Loadstar
Loadstar

Loadstar is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published since 1984, and still in publication today. It derived its name from the command used to cause the first file on a Commodore 1541 disk to execute, LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar"....
for the Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of United States dollar595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes of Random-access memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of tha...
, and Big Blue Disk
Big Blue Disk

Big Blue Disk was a monthly disk magazine that was published by Softdisk starting in 1986, getting its name from the nickname for IBM, "Big Blue"....
for the IBM PC

IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform ....
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Later, Diskworld was renamed Softdisk for Mac, but it ceased publication by the end of the 1990s along with the other disk magazines published by Softdisk (other than Loadstar, which broke off as an independent company and continued into the 2000s) as the company moved more into Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
development.