{"id":21289,"date":"2018-10-01T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=21289"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:34:36","slug":"compute-august-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/10\/01\/compute-august-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Compute! (August 1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Compute_Issue_015_1981_Aug-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"compute_issue_015_1981_aug-001\" width=\"1664\" height=\"2176\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCompute%21%2F1981-08&amp;twg_show=Compute_Issue_015_1981_Aug-001.jpg\">Compute! &#8211; Issue Number 15 &#8211; August 1981<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The August 1981 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Editor&#8217;s Notes<\/li>\n<li>Ask The Readers<\/li>\n<li>Computers And Society: Some Speculations On The Well-Played Game, Part II<\/li>\n<li>The Beginner&#8217;s Page<\/li>\n<li>Basically Useful Basic: Checking Randomness Of Random Number Generators<\/li>\n<li>Trenton: The Original Computer Festival<\/li>\n<li>Basic Oneliners: Minimize Code And Maximize Speed<\/li>\n<li>Computer Assisted Instruction &#8211; Worth The Effort?<\/li>\n<li>Wolves, Caribou, And Other Problems<\/li>\n<li>Add A Programmable Sound Generator<\/li>\n<li>The Carry Bit &#8211; What It Is And How It Works<\/li>\n<li>The Floating-Point Division Routine<\/li>\n<li>Practical Aspects Of Assembly Language: Part II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Apple Gazette\n<ul>\n<li>Apple Disk Motor Control<\/li>\n<li>Interfacing The Apple To 6500 Family Peripherals<\/li>\n<li>A Cassette Tape Monitor For The Apple<\/li>\n<li>Diskette Sector Space In A Greeting Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Atari Gazette\n<ul>\n<li>Restoring And Updating Data On The Atari<\/li>\n<li>Easy Reading Of The Atari Joystick<\/li>\n<li>Poem Writer<\/li>\n<li>Supercube Update<\/li>\n<li>Atari Sound Utility<\/li>\n<li>Blockade For The Atari<\/li>\n<li>Define A Line On The Atari<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The OSI Gazette\n<ul>\n<li>The OSI RS232 Port And The High Speed Printer Interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pet Gazette\n<ul>\n<li>The CBM &#8220;Fat 40&#8221; &#8211; Boon Or Bane?<\/li>\n<li>Digital Arrayment<\/li>\n<li>Keyword<\/li>\n<li>CBM\/PET Loading, Chaining And Overlaying<\/li>\n<li>Converting Pet Basic Programs To ASCII Files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Single Board Computer Gazette\n<ul>\n<li>The Single Board 6502<\/li>\n<li>Nuts And Volts: Build Your Own Controllers Part II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New Products<\/li>\n<li>Advertiser&#8217;s Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Compute! &#8211; Issue Number 15 &#8211; 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&#8217;s Notes Ask The Readers Computers And Society: Some Speculations On The Well-Played Game, Part II The Beginner&#8217;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 &#8211; Worth The Effort? Wolves, Caribou, And Other Problems Add A Programmable Sound Generator The Carry Bit &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3306,2782,194,195,196,225,229,236,237,2780,2779,1318,2362,2781],"class_list":["post-21289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-3306","tag-aim","tag-apple","tag-apple-2","tag-apple-ii","tag-atari","tag-atari-400","tag-atari-8-bit","tag-atari-800","tag-kim","tag-osi","tag-pet","tag-retrocomputing","tag-sym"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}