Softdisk is a software and Internet company based inside Shreveport, Louisiana. Based within 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It were attached & part owned by paper magazine Softalk at their founding, however survived its death. Publications involved Softdisk for the Apple II, Loadstar for the Commodore 64, Big Blue Disk (later On Disk Monthly& Softdisk PC) for the IBM PC, Diskworld (later Softdisk for Mackintosh) for the Apple Macintosh, Softdisk G-S for the Apple IIgs, and Softdisk for Windows for the Windows platform. Per late 1990s, however, these publications were discontinued, although Loadstar had the continued life as an independent company catering to a "cult following" of Commodore buffs.

Softdisk has besides published a select few standalone software package, including screen-saver owner Screen Saver Studio, which remains in print & under development at present. Nonetheless, it is probably best known for existence a previous work of many of the founders of id Software, including John Carmack and John Romero, who worked in the short-fugacious gage subscription product (''Gage's Edge) for Softdisk prior to running off in their have to uncovered id. To complete their contractual obligation to Softdisk, it did two or three further games for the children including Hovertank 3D, Rescue Rover, and Keen Dreams (the "lost" episode of the Commander Keen'' series). Softdisk later on published games by more developers using the "game engines" of the earliest games.

Since 1995, Softdisk has been an Internet service provider as well, and this is at present their primary business. It offer local dialup service in the Shreveport metropolitan area, & Web hosting & development services.

List it've been known by at various days & for various purposes include: Softdisk Magazette; Softdisk Publishing; Softdisk Internet Services; Softdisk, Inc.; Softdisk, L.L.C.; & Magazines In Disk. "Softdisk" hwhen universally been officially written as 1 word, though it's typically erroneously written when "Soft Disk" or even "SoftDisk".