{"id":26796,"date":"2021-05-13T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=26796"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:43:06","slug":"commodore-disk-user-january-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/commodore-disk-user-january-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore Disk User (January 1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_DiskUser%2FCommodore_DiskUser_1988-02&amp;twg_show=Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26798\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000-749x1024.jpg 749w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000-768x1051.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000-88x120.jpg 88w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_DiskUser%2FCommodore_DiskUser_1988-02&amp;twg_show=Commodore_Disk_User_Volume_01_Number_02_1988-01_Argus_Specialist_Publications_GB_0000.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">Commodore Disk User &#8211; Volume 1, Number 2 &#8211; January 1988<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Commodore64.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Commodore Disk User (CDU) was published in the U.K. in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It covered primarily the Commodore 64 but also the Plus\/4 and Commodore 128. It was unique in that it came with a cover floppy disk and disk drives were not nearly as common in the U.K. as they were in the U.S. at the time. The February 1988 issue includes:<\/p>\n<p>In The Magazine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Disk Info<\/b> &#8211; How to use this month&#8217;s disk<\/li>\n<li><b>Update<\/b> &#8211; The latest news from the world of Commodore<\/li>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b> &#8211; Your chance to air your views<\/li>\n<li><b>Shoot &#8217;em Up Construction Kit<\/b> &#8211; A look at this superb program from Outlaw<\/li>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; We look at the latest games to hit the streets<\/li>\n<li><b>Strategic Simulations<\/b> &#8211; The Strategy games specialists<\/li>\n<li><b>Disk Dungeons<\/b> &#8211; Our regular delve into adventure games<\/li>\n<li><b>Scroll Your Own<\/b> &#8211; How to create your own scrolling backdrops<\/li>\n<li><b>Puzzles<\/b> &#8211; Light relief and a chance to win a binder<\/li>\n<li><b>Definitive Programming<\/b> &#8211; How to use User Defined Graphics<\/li>\n<li><b>Contributions<\/b> &#8211; How to write for Commodore Disk User<\/li>\n<li><b>Evesham Competition<\/b> &#8211; Your chance to win a disk drive or a slimline case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On The Disk<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Disk Librarian<\/b> &#8211; Keep track of what&#8217;s on which disk<\/li>\n<li><b>Disk Mate<\/b> &#8211; Handy pop-up disk functions<\/li>\n<li><b>Noluxe Paint<\/b> &#8211; A superb low-res drawing package &#8211; great for title screens<\/li>\n<li><b>Text Cracker<\/b> &#8211; Grab those character sets you like for your own use<\/li>\n<li><b>Quad<\/b> &#8211; New life for the brick\/bat game<\/li>\n<li><b>Five Up<\/b>Can you win at this dice game?<\/li>\n<li><b>Ram Disk C128<\/b> &#8211; Our first program for the C128<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Commodore Disk User &#8211; Volume 1, Number 2 &#8211; January 1988 Commodore Disk User (CDU) was published in the U.K. in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It covered primarily the Commodore 64 but also the Plus\/4 and Commodore 128. It was unique in that it came with a cover floppy disk and disk drives were not nearly as common in the U.K. as they were in the U.S. at the time. The February 1988 issue includes: In The Magazine Disk Info &#8211; How to use this month&#8217;s disk Update &#8211; The latest news from the world of Commodore Letters &#8211; Your chance to air your views Shoot &#8217;em Up Construction Kit &#8211; A look at this superb program from Outlaw Reviews &#8211; We look at the latest games to hit the streets Strategic Simulations &#8211; The Strategy games specialists Disk Dungeons &#8211; Our regular delve into adventure games Scroll Your Own &#8211; How to create your own scrolling backdrops Puzzles &#8211; Light relief and a chance to win a binder Definitive Programming &#8211; How to use User Defined Graphics Contributions &#8211; How to write for Commodore Disk User Evesham Competition &#8211; Your chance to win a disk drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[370,471,473,2362],"class_list":["post-26796","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796","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=26796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}