Source: K-Power – Number 1 – February 1984
K-Power was a relatively short-lived computer magazine by scholastic published in the early/mid 1980s and designed to appeal to kids. It was pretty comprehensive, covering programming, games, tutorials, new products and more on a wide variety of platforms. The February 1985 issue includes the following:
Features
- A Networking Guide: Reach Out & Access Someone – How and where to hook up; the lowdown on the newest modems and the latest lingo. Plus, a behind-the-scenes look at how a bulletin-board system works.
- Pirates & Raiders – The computer-abuser subculture. In their own words: why they do it. Their peers say why they shouldn’t.
- Konnect With The K-Net – A K-Power network hooked up by modem. Win your own modem and go on-line!
- ‘Whiz Kids’: Networking Goes Prime Time – Computing is cool in this TV hit (even when they fake it – you can run the computer “cheat” program they use on the show).
- For Dogs Only: Woof Ware – A spoof for computing canines.
- The Hy Brids – A new software breed is double the fun.
Programming
- Hacker Heaven – Programs for ADAM, Atari, Apple, Commodore 64 and VIC-20, IBM, TI, Timex, and TRS-80.
- Programs – You’ll have to find out what the ?????? program does; we can tell you Symphony in 3D is the latest in electronic meditation.
- Pixel That! – Translate or improve our Word Twister puzzle and get a chance to WIN a Timex color 2068!!
Products
- Screening Room – Software reviews, strategy, and the latest in new products.
- Rating Game – Reviews and views on Flight Simulator, Zork III, Ultima II, Zaxxon, and Deadline.
- Strategy – 12 tips for tackling Archon.
- Rising Stars – Preview the Coleco ADAM and IBM PCjr.
Departments
- Editor’s note
- Compuzine – The first edition of K-Power’s mini-computer news magazine.
- Scrolling In Dough – Big bucks, limos, and clones: one teen’s inside look at a software company.
- Silicon Alley – Ready for the hottest scoops from the Valley?
- Dr. Kursor’s Klinic – How to hook up your own bulletin board; how a graphics tablet works.
- Contest – Name That Hacker and win a K-Power T-shirt!
- Graphics Gallery – K-Power’s computer-generated centerfold poster.
…and more!
