• Tag Archives apple

  • Compute! (April 1986)

    Posted on by Azrael Comment

    compute_issue_071_1986_apr-001

    Source: Compute! – Issue Number 71 – April 1986

    Though I tended to buy Commodore specific magazines back in the 80s, Compute! was certainly the best multi-format computer magazine of the time. It really had a huge amount of content for your $3 or $4. The April 1986 issue includes:

    Features

    • New Technologies: The Converging Digital Universe
    • A Turning Point for Atari? Report from the Winter Consumer Electronics Show
    • Tug-a-War

    Reviews

    • Silent Service
    • DeluxePaint for Amiga
    • S’More for Commodore 64
    • Heart of Africa
    • Hacker
    • MasterType’s Writer for Apple
    • HabaWriter for the Atari ST

    Columns and Departments

    • The Editor’s Notes
    • Reader’s Feedback
    • HOTWARE
    • The World Inside the Computer: The Robot Inside You
    • Computers and Society: Humanizing the User Interface, Part 2
    • The Beginner’s Page: More String-Slicing
    • Telecomputing Today: An April Trade Show Report
    • Programming the TI: Creating Rhythms
    • IBM Personal Computing: Two Checkers and a Manager
    • INSIGHT: Atari – Binary Files, Unite!

    The Journal

    • Loading and Linking Commodore Programs, Part 2
    • Adding System Power to ST BASIC, Part 1
    • Mousify Your Applesoft Programs, Part 2
    • IBM Variable Snapshot
    • Atari Textdump
    • AmigaDOS Batch Files
    • Apple Disk Duper
    • Smooth-Scrolling Billboards for IBM
    • Commodore 64 Screen Genie
    • Screen Saver 64
    • Atari FontMaker
    • Hi-Res Graphics Aid Routines
    • Commodore 64 Key Phantom
    • Screen Clock for IBM

    …and more!


    📂This entry was posted in Computer Arcana 📎and tagged

  • K-Power (February 1984)

    Posted on by Azrael Comment

    k-power_issue_01_1984_feb-01

    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!


    📂This entry was posted in Computer Arcana 📎and tagged

  • Hardcore Computist – Issue Number 16

    Posted on by Azrael Comment

    cover-1

    Source: Hardcore Computist – Issue Number 16 

    Hardcore Computist was a long running technically oriented Apple II magazine. It was somewhat controversial because it was mostly dedicated to circumventing copy protection. Issue number 16 from 1985 includes the following:

      • Secret Weapon: RAMCard – If you have an Apple IIe and haven’t been able to RESET into the monitor for some of Hardcore Computist’s softkey procedures, the auxiliary memory in your extended 80-column card may just do the trick for you.
      • Deprotecting Sensible Speller for ProDOS – Another chapter in the continuing saga of Sensible Speller Softkeys. This time we uncover the secrets to the deprotection of the ProDOS version.
      • Core Section
        • The Controller Writer – Have you found that writing Super IOB controllers is too difficult or time consuming? Sweat no more! The Controller Writer will quickly and easily generate custom Super IOB controllers for you. You only need answer a few simple questions to get things started.
        • A Fix For The Beyond Castle Wolfenstein Softkey
        • The Lone Catalog Arranger – Part One: The BASIC program. With this program and the program appearing in next month’s issue you will be able to easily edit your disk directories. Includes these commands: file order modification, renaming, deleting and undeleting.
      • Softkey for Sideways – Yes, it is possible to backup (and unprotect) your valuable Sideways diskette. Read this article to discover exactly how.
      • Departments
        • Input
        • Readers’ Softkey & Copy Exchange
          • Rescue Raiders Softkey And APT’s
          • Deprotecting Sheila
          • Deprotecting Basic Building Blocks
          • Deprotecting Artsci Programs
          • <Softkey for Crossfire

    …and more!





    📂This entry was posted in Apple ][ Computer Arcana 📎and tagged