Softdisk

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Softdisk

Headquarters in 2004; these offices were, for the latter part of the company's history, in a converted basement in downtown Shreveport.
Company type	Private
Industry	Software, Internet
Founded	1981
Defunct	2016
Headquarters	Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Key people	Jim Mangham, Founder Judi Mangham, Founder Al Vekovius, Founder, CEO John Beaird, CEO John Carmack, Game Programmer John Romero, Game Programmer & Designer Tom Hall, Game Designer Adrian Carmack, Artist Kevin Cloud, Artist and Manager Jay Wilbur, Manager
Products	Disk magazines, video games

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 most well known for being the former workplace of several of the founders of id Software.