Source: RUN – Issue Number 68 – August 1989
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Compute!’s Gazette (September 1988)
Source: Compute!’s Gazette – September 1988
Features
- Exta! Extra! Write All About It! – A guide to desktop publishing on the Commodore 64 and 128 including an overview of some of the software available, including The Newsroom, geoPublish, Personal Newsletter, and Paperclip Publisher.
- Putting It to Work – Some examples of how Commodore user groups are using various desktop publishing software to create newsletters.
Reviews
- Deja Vu – A mystery themed text/graphics adventure by Mindscape that was originally written for the Mac.
- Ticket to Washington D.C. – An educational game in the same vein as Carmen Sandiego but with a focus on Washington D.C.
- X-15 Alpha Mission – A 3D arcade style shooter in which you are in the cockpit of an X-15 space craft (not to be confused with the research aircraft).
- Star Empire – A vast action strategy game that borrows a lot from games like Elite in which there are a number of goals including finding the cure for a galactic plague and ultimately building a shield to protect against alien invasion.
Games
- Lincoln Green – A type-in arcade style game in which you play a Robin Hood like character running through the forest protecting your treasure and dodging arrows.
- Boom and Bust – This type-in game combines Hangman with Circus Atari. Launch your clown to hit the balloon with the letter that you want to guess…
- Lava Flow – A type-in game in which you must build walls to prevent the Lava flow from getting to you.
Programming
- BASIC for Beginners: The Pigeonhole Analogy – This BASIC tutorial teaches you all about arrays.
- The Programmer’s Page: Did You Know That… – Various programming hints and tips, including PEEKing strings, undimensioned arrays, abbreviating BASIC, and more.
- Machine Language Programming: Debugging – Some tips on debugging machine language programming, including making the RUN/STOP key work and a specific debugging example.
- Pattern Fill – A type-in graphics utility that will fill areas with any rectangular pattern.
- Multicolor Graphics Dump – A type-in program for sending full screen graphics to a MPS-801, MPS-803, Commodore 1525 or compatible printer.
- Multicolor Graphics and Video Storage – A detailed article on how graphics are stored and accessed on the Commodore 64, including a programming example and instructions for how to print.
- ML Boot – A type-in program that lets you auto load up to 9 machine language programs at once.
- Speedcheck 128: A Spelling Checker for SpeedScript 128 – A spell checker for Gazette’s own word processing program that was also originally published as a type-in program.
- Disk Package – A type-in program that gives you a more full-featured set of disk utilities (and also supports the 1764 RAM Expansion) vs. the DOS 5.1 disk that comes with the 1541 and 1571 disk drives.
- MultiSort 128 – A machine language sorting routine that can be used from your own BASIC programs on the Commodore 128.
Departments
- The Editor’s Note – An overview of some of what was shown at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.
- Letters to the Editor – Some readers complain about defective Commodore 128Ds, a question about the Commodore PC10-1, and another about page numbering.
- Feedback – Questions about converting a 1702 monitor to a color TV, alphabetizing in SpeedScript, printing machine language listings, formatting and using double-side vs. single-sided disks on the 1571, and more.
- D’Iversions: Murder at Palenque – A look at a interactive videodisc software and the future of multimedia software.
- Horizons: Counting People and Making Faces – A look at the chat mode of various telecommunications services and a comparison with CB radio.
- The GEOS Column: Quick Clock – A type-in program that gives you a simple clock desktop accessory for GEOS.
- News & Products – New products mentioned this month include Home Video Producer, Tower Toppler, Technocop, Battleship, Final Assault, Street Sports Football, The Legend of Blacksilver, Mind-Roll, The Games: Summer Edition, Pete Rose Pennant Fever, U.S.S. Ocean Ranger, Predator, Zak McKRacken and the Alien Mindbenders, Neuromancer, Serve and Volley, T.K.O.,Fast Break, and Rack ‘Em.
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Commodore Magazine (January 1987)
Commodore Magazine
January 1987 (Cover)Source: Commodore Magazine – January 1987
Commodore Magazine was one of the first magazines I ever bought on a regular basis. It covered the Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Amiga line as well as Commodore’s PC clones. I only had the Commodore 64 but I enjoyed reading about the Amiga since I wanted one at the time. The January 1987 issue includes:
Departments
- Letters – Comments on previous articles and reviews including Invisible BASIC, Kinney Video Digitizer, and more.
- News – Making the news this month is Epyx’s 500XJ Joystick, a laser printing service using GEOS and QuantumLink, an update to the 128 Buyer’s Guide, The Commodore Show at L.A., and more.
- Software Reviews
- Mind Walker – An odd sort of puzzle game for the Amiga.
- Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? – Explore the world looking for Carmen Sandiego with this game for the Commodore 64.
- Vizastar 128 – Vizistar 128 is a combination spreadsheet/database/graphing program. It takes advantage of the Commodore 128’s additional memory and 80 column display.
- Color Mail – A program for the Commodore 64 published by Hallmark for creating and sending (via CompuServe) electronic greeting cards.
- ABC Caterpillar – An educational game for the Commodore 64 that teaches spelling.
- Mrs. Mac – A reading/phonics educational game for the Commodore 64. There are actually two separate programs each costing $30 at the time, Mrs. Mac’s Consonants and Mrs. MAc’s Short Vowels.
- Tips & Tricks – This month, a Commodore 128 mind reader, a disk buyer’s guide, tips on using the second side of a disk, making tabs and labels, storing disks, making disk mailers, a program loading tip, and a screens saver.
- Technical Tips
- How to Build a Light Pen – A complete parts list and instructions for building a light pen for your Commodore 64.
- CP/M Public Domain – A guide to obtaining public domain CP/M software that will work with the Commodore 128.
- Amiga Update
- Deluxe Video Advanced User’s Guide – Some excerpts from the book of the same name.
- Silicon Valley Insider
- From America’s Cup to OutrAegis ’86 – Aegis announces support for the CD-I along with a bunch of software for it; Digital Engineering releases a new video digitizer for the Commodore 64; Electronic Arts releases two new games, America’s Cup and Star Fleet 1, for the Commodore 64.
Commodore Magazine
January 1987
Volume 8, Number 1
Page 003 (Contents)- Telecommunications
- Connect! – A beginner’s guide to telecommunications including the definitions of some commonly used terms such as Answer/Originate Mode, ASCII, Baud, Bit, Buffer, Bulletin Board, and more.
- Computer Tutor
- Mobsters! – A guide for creating and using Sprites and other Moveable Objects on the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128.
- 64 Users Only
- Show Anything Slide Show – This type in program provides a slide show that will work with your graphics in a variety of formats, including KoalaPainter, Doodle!, Flying Colors, UltraBASIC 64, HES Graphics BASIC, CadPak 64, Two Color, title and B/Graph.
- Jiffies
- Kaleidoscope – A short program that displays an ever changing kaleidoscope pattern on your Commodore 64.
- E.S.P. – A program that tests your E.S.P. abilities by letting you sense what shape will be displayed on the next card.
- Basic Clock – This short program displays an on screen clock.
- User Groups – A list of Commodore user groups around the country that have been officially recognized by Commodore as Approved User Groups.
- Adventure Road
- Bastian, the Back-seat Adventurer – Some commentary on recent adventure games for the Commodore 64 including The Neverending Story, Tass Times in Tone Town, Trinity, Breakers, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Auto Duel, Knights of Destiny and more.
- Q-Link Update
- Inside QuantumLink – QuantumLink was a Commodore 64 only online service that was the direct predecessor to America Online. This month’s update discusses downloading public domain software among other things.
Features
- Inside GEOS – GEOS was the graphical user interface for Commodore 64 and 128 computers by Berkeley Softworks. This is an interview with the president of Berkeley Softworks and includes some of their plans for GEOS and associated applications.
- 1986: The Year In Computers – Some computer related highlights for 1986 including quotes from Ronald Reagan, Jay Leno, Matthew Broderick and others; first year success for the Commodore 128; the redesigned Commodore 64C; the first wave of software for the Amiga and much more. For context, 1986 included the Challenger disaster, Halley’s comet, Microsoft announces public stock offering; Max Headroom is born…
- What To Do With Your Christmas Money – A sort of after Christmas buyer’s guide. Items listed include a binary clock, computerized greeting cards, a hat with built-in fan and solar panel, a jigsaw puzzle of an Intel CPU, playing cards with a heroes of the computer age theme, and much more.
Commodore Magazine
January 1987
Volume 8, Number 1
Page 130 (Advertisement)
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