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Commodore World, Issue Number 7

Commodore World was really the last commercial print Commodore 64 related magazine published in the U.S. Published my Creative Micro Designs (CMD), it was largely a vehicle to advertise their hardware products. However, it had a lot of good content as well. Issue Number 7 from 1995 includes:

Features

• Surviving the 90s – Keep your Commodore useful for years to come.
• Bonus Review: A Tale of Two Printers – That FGM guy recounts his experiences of buying a new inkjet printer.

Reviews

• Software: Two Tax Packages – Don’t let the IRS tax your mind as well as your income.
• Games: Miniviews – Mean Streets, Questron II, Stickybear Math and Memory Manor.
• Hardware: Cartridge Port Expanders – Find out what CMD’s EX3 and EX2+1 are, and what they can do for you.
• Hardware: CMD’s GamePad – Your games may take on a new life using this sega-style controller.

Columns

• Just For Starters – Steve eases new users into peeks, pokes, and disk commands.
• Foreign Exchange – Take a closer look at Scanntronik, Germany’s video hardware source.
• Graphic Interpretation – Taking advantage of geoWrite is just a matter of using the right tools!
• geoProgrammist – Introductory steps to building a dialog box in GEOS.
• Basic Instincts – Replace those INPUT commands with clean input subroutines.
• SCSI Magic – Add removable media SCSI drives to your CMD HD system.
• Hard Tips: Video Cables – Build the right cable for your computer and monitor combination.
• Peripheral Vision – Ease your disk operations with a DOS Wedge.
• Carrier Detect – Take some ‘netiquette’ lessons from our telecommunications expert.
• Over the Edge – Getting your spouse involved with computing may not be the right thing to do.

Departments

• From the Editor
• Backtalk
• On the Horizon
• The Connection
• Top Tips
• Commodore User Groups
• Commodore Trivia
• Classified Ads
• Advertiser’s Index

…and more!