Source: Commodore Power Play – Winter 1982
For most of Commodore’s life they published magazines for their computers. Sometimes there were multiple titles. Commodore Power/Play was a magazine dedicated to home uses of their computers, particularly entertainment and other mostly non-business type uses. Things like word processing, databases and spreadsheets were mostly left to their other publication. The Winter 1982 issue includes:
- Braindrops – from the editor
- We’re Glad You Asked – Answers to reader questions
- Access: Commodore User Groups
- User Hints
- The Computer-Controlled Home – With devices like the Homebrain, you can manage your home more efficiently
- A VIC Piano – Use your VIC 20 keyboard to make a little music
- The VIC Magician – Random numbers and animation techniques from our resident wizard
- The Great Computer Rivalry – How the VIC 20 stacks up against the competition
- Joysticks, Paddles and Lightpens – An excerpt from the upcoming Commodore 64 Programmer’s Reference Guide
- Coupon Control – Use this program to keep track of store coupons and save money
- Deflection – Type and save this game for any Commodore computer, and learn a little in the process
- A Joystick Version of Slither – For those who have the early keyboard version of Slither
- Omega Race: The Finer Points – Advice on how to score from the present champ
- Behind the Programs – An interview with Rick Adge, creator of Garden Wars
- High Scores
- VIC Baseball – Winner of the June Commodore Challenge contest. Type and save the program listing
- Making Friends with Sid – The first in a series on music synthesization on the Commodore 64
- A Little Exercise in Machine Language – Get a feel for your computer’s native language
- Tele/Scope – Test your M.Q. (Modem Quotient)
- New Products
- Book Review – John O’Brien reviews Tim Hartnell’s Getting Acquainted with Your VIC 20
- Program Review – Commodore’s BASIC Programming, Part II teach-yourself-programming package
- No More Pencils, No More Books – How Captain Zurgle Saved His Ship with Commodore’s Visible Solar System Cartridge, and Learned about Home Babysitter, Too.
- Get Serious – What’s happening on the POWERful side of Commodore
- Program Review: VICMON
- Commodore VIC 20 Price List
…and more!