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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!