Source: Compute! – Issue Number 15 – August 1981
If you happened to be a computer owner in 1981 then Compute! would have definitely been a magazine that you would have wanted to subscribe to. The magazine lasted for more than a decade and in these early days it was exclusively covering 8-bit computers based on the 6502 processor. There were more of these than you might think.
The August 1981 issue includes:
- The Editor’s Notes
- Ask The Readers
- Computers And Society: Some Speculations On The Well-Played Game, Part II
- The Beginner’s Page
- Basically Useful Basic: Checking Randomness Of Random Number Generators
- Trenton: The Original Computer Festival
- Basic Oneliners: Minimize Code And Maximize Speed
- Computer Assisted Instruction – Worth The Effort?
- Wolves, Caribou, And Other Problems
- Add A Programmable Sound Generator
- The Carry Bit – What It Is And How It Works
- The Floating-Point Division Routine
- Practical Aspects Of Assembly Language: Part II
- The Apple Gazette
- Apple Disk Motor Control
- Interfacing The Apple To 6500 Family Peripherals
- A Cassette Tape Monitor For The Apple
- Diskette Sector Space In A Greeting Program
- The Atari Gazette
- Restoring And Updating Data On The Atari
- Easy Reading Of The Atari Joystick
- Poem Writer
- Supercube Update
- Atari Sound Utility
- Blockade For The Atari
- Define A Line On The Atari
- The OSI Gazette
- The OSI RS232 Port And The High Speed Printer Interface
- The Pet Gazette
- The CBM “Fat 40” – Boon Or Bane?
- Digital Arrayment
- Keyword
- CBM/PET Loading, Chaining And Overlaying
- Converting Pet Basic Programs To ASCII Files
- The Single Board Computer Gazette
- The Single Board 6502
- Nuts And Volts: Build Your Own Controllers Part II
- New Products
- Advertiser’s Index
…and more!
