{"id":24810,"date":"2020-04-23T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=24810"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:29:15","slug":"commodore-power-play-august-september-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/commodore-power-play-august-september-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore Power Play (August\/September 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_Power_Play%2Fcommodore_power_play_1984-10&amp;twg_show=Commodore_Power-Play_1984_Issue_10_V3_N03_Aug_Sep-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Commodore_Power-Play_1984_Issue_10_V3_N03_Aug_Sep-001-763x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"763\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_Power_Play%2Fcommodore_power_play_1984-10&amp;twg_show=Commodore_Power-Play_1984_Issue_10_V3_N03_Aug_Sep-001.jpg\">Commodore Power\/Play &#8211; Issue Number 10 &#8211; August\/September 1984<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Commodore64Vic20.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Commodore Power\/Play was one of Commodore&#8217;s two official publications that eventually merged into one to become Commodore Magazine. Power\/Play was the publication targeted towards home users. In 1984, the Commodore 64 was still working its way towards becoming the world&#8217;s most popular computer and the VIC-20 was fading away. The November 1984 issue includes:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computers, Computer Groups and Who Needs Them<\/li>\n<li>Confessions of a User Group Newsletter Editor<\/li>\n<li>Incorporating Your Group as a Non-Profit Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Jim Butterfield: Commodore User Par Excellence<\/li>\n<li>A User Group Software Library<\/li>\n<li>Profile: The Cal Poly User Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Games &amp; Recreation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Game &amp; Recreation<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Kid Grid<\/li>\n<li>Moon Shuttle<\/li>\n<li>One-on-One Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Repton<\/li>\n<li>DROL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Joystick Lunatic<\/b> &#8211; A Trend Indeed<\/li>\n<li><b>For Gamers<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Children of Kong<\/li>\n<li>Game Gripes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>High Scores<\/b> &#8211; How do you measure up in our ongoing competition?<\/li>\n<li><b>Game Programs<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Tic Tac Toe for Two<\/li>\n<li>Traffic in the Fast Lanes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Computer Know-How<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>No More Pencils&#8230;<\/b> &#8211; Write Your Own &#8220;Pick-A-Path&#8221; Adventures<\/li>\n<li><b>Kids&#8217; Corner<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Dear Kids<\/li>\n<li>Kids, Commodores and &#8211; Robots!<\/li>\n<li>KODRAWLA<\/li>\n<li>Everything You Wanted to Know About Sprites<\/li>\n<li>Obfuscode<\/li>\n<li>How to Submit Things to Kids&#8217; Corner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Computer Tutor<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Letter to My Grandchildren, Part 2: Finger Multiply<\/li>\n<li>All You Need to Know to Begin Programming in Machine Language, Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Jiffies<\/b> &#8211; MERGER: A Disk Utility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Braindrops<\/b> &#8211; From the Editor<\/li>\n<li><b>News From the Front<\/b> &#8211; What&#8217;s happening in the world of micros? Find out here.<\/li>\n<li><b>Product Review<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>The MicronEye Digital Imaging System<\/li>\n<li>PowerPad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Book Review<\/b> &#8211; Three From Birkhauser Boston<\/li>\n<li><b>User Groups<\/b> &#8211; A complete list of Commodore user groups around the world<\/li>\n<li><b>Glitch Fix<\/b> &#8211; When we make a mistake this is where we fix it<\/li>\n<li><b>Advertisers Index<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Commodore Power\/Play &#8211; Issue Number 10 &#8211; August\/September 1984 Commodore Power\/Play was one of Commodore&#8217;s two official publications that eventually merged into one to become Commodore Magazine. Power\/Play was the publication targeted towards home users. In 1984, the Commodore 64 was still working its way towards becoming the world&#8217;s most popular computer and the VIC-20 was fading away. The November 1984 issue includes: Features Computers, Computer Groups and Who Needs Them Confessions of a User Group Newsletter Editor Incorporating Your Group as a Non-Profit Corporation Jim Butterfield: Commodore User Par Excellence A User Group Software Library Profile: The Cal Poly User Group Games &amp; Recreation Game &amp; Recreation Kid Grid Moon Shuttle One-on-One Basketball Repton DROL Joystick Lunatic &#8211; A Trend Indeed For Gamers Children of Kong Game Gripes High Scores &#8211; How do you measure up in our ongoing competition? Game Programs Tic Tac Toe for Two Traffic in the Fast Lanes Computer Know-How No More Pencils&#8230; &#8211; Write Your Own &#8220;Pick-A-Path&#8221; Adventures Kids&#8217; Corner Dear Kids Kids, Commodores and &#8211; Robots! KODRAWLA Everything You Wanted to Know About Sprites Obfuscode How to Submit Things to Kids&#8217; Corner Computer Tutor Letter to My Grandchildren, Part 2: Finger Multiply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[370,471,473,2362,1885,1886],"class_list":["post-24810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","tag-c64","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-retrocomputing","tag-vic-20","tag-vic20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810","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=24810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}