RUN was one of the Commodore 64 related magazines that I bought back in the day. However, I didn’t start buying it until pretty late in its life. Instead, I mostly picked up Commodore Magazine when I had the chance and switched to RUN when Commodore Magazine ceased publication. The May 1988 issue of RUN includes:
- RUNning Ruminations – How the Commodore 64 has aged better than some PC models.
- Magic – Short programming tricks for highlighting BASIC line numbers, rotating a box in ultra hi-res mode on the Commodore 128, partitioning disks on the 1581 drive, and more.
- News and New Products – New games including Card Sharks, The Train: Escape to Normandy, Power at Sea, The Hunt for Red October, BattleDroids, The Rubicon Alliance, Global Commander, The Games: Winter Edition, Death Sword, 4×4 Offroad Racing, Impossible Mission II, Sporting News Baseball, L.A. Crackdown, Star Rank Boxing II, Land of Legends, Galactic Invasion, The Faery Tale Adventure, Black Jack Academy, Plasmatron, and more.
- Mail Run – Readers write in about discontinued Commodore PC clones, GEOS clip art, Canadian word processors, save-with-replace bug, CP/M, the Okidata 180 printer, Gunship, and more.
- Software Gallery – Reviews of Deja Vu, Instant Music, Apollo 18, Darkhorn, Halls of Montezuma, Cholo, Dark Lord, and Strategist.
- Goto Programming – A guide to programming from Jim Butterfield.
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- A Basic Adventure – A guide to handling the data needed for programming your own adventure game.
- The Assembly Line – A guide to assemblers on the Commodore 64/128.
- Graphix to the Max – A type-in program for converting 40-column graphical displays to 80-column on the Commodore 128.
- Drip-Drop – A type-in game for the Commodore 64 in which you must use buckets to catch raindrops.
- Moving Messages – A type-in program for the Commodore 64 that lets you scroll large messages across the screen.
- Tick-Tock 128 – A type-in program for the Commodore 128 that displays a 12-hour analog clock.
- geoWatch – The new geoSpell plus tips from readers including tips for installing geoWrite, creating more space on workdisks, removing unwanted files, solving disk errors, converting files to Doodle!, and more.
- Telecomputing Workshop – A comparison of Q-Link and GEnie prices.
- Commodore Clinic – Questions answered about GEOS 128, using the 4040 disk drive with a Commodore 64, resetting the Commodore 64 programmatically, slowing down screen output, and more.
- Mega-Magic – A short program to delete and save a new version of a file with one command.
…and more!
