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RUN: The Commodore 64 & VIC-20 Magazine (September 1984)
RUN was primarily a Commodore 64 magazine though depending on the exact time period, it also covered the VIC-20, Plus/4, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128. The September 1984 issue includes:
Features
- Back to Basics – An overview of educational software available for the Commodore 64. Titles looked at here include Hodge Podge, ABC Fun, Spellbound, Young Folk Series, Fay: The Word Hunter, Funbunch-Elementary, Funbunch-Intermediate, Word Attack!, M-ss-ng L-nks, Word Spinner, Learning With Leeper, Preschool IQ Builder, Facemaker, Early Games for Young Children, Kids on Keys, The Factory, Moptown Parade, Fraction Fever, Multi-Beci, Meteor Multiplication, Demolition Division, Minus Mission, Alien Addition, Alligator Mix, Dragon Mix, Success With Math, Comparing Whole Numbers, Numer-Beci, 10 Little Robots, 123 Fun, Fay: That Math Woman, Ships Ahoy, Race Car ‘Rithmetic, Mathematics, MathWiz, Elementary Math Package, Challenge Math, Addition Magician, Add-Sub, Survival Math, Dungeons of the Algebra Dragons, and TEC4.
- Speller – A type-in educational program that reinforces spelling, vocabulary, and keyboard skills.
- Watch Your Sidestep – A type-in game in which you must make it through the maze without hitting a wall or retracing your steps.
- Mysteries of the Wedge Revealed – A guide to the Commodore 64 DOS Wedge.
- Terminal Programs – Reviews of seven terminal programs for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 including Smart 64 Terminal, SuperTerm, Telstar, Vidtex, VIP Terminal, Graph-Term 64, ’64 Terminal, and Terminal 40.
- Lister Filter – A type-in program that convert the Commodore 64s special graphics symbols to printable equivalent for printing program listings.
- Cops, Robbers, and Computers – How one Melbourne, Florida police detective used his Commodore 64 and Superbase 64 to build a database of robberies and burglaries.
- SID AID – A type-in program for the Commodore 64 that adds three new commands to BASIC to make creating music easier.
Departments
- RUNning Ruminations – An editorial on educational software and computers in the classroom.
- Magic – Tips and tricks for better typing, erasing a single line on the screen, finding the cursor, making the VIC-20 beep when you type, undocumented graphic characters, loading from cassette, and more.
- Software Gallery – Reviews of Flight Simulator II (perhaps the most influential flight sim of all time), Super-Text (a word processor), Pit Stop (classic racing game from Epyx), Quintic Warrior (a not-so great arcade style game), and Eliza (from Artificial Intelligence Research Group).
- Video Casino – A type-in game called Sky Pilot designed to teach you about animation on the Commodore 64 and VIC-20.
- Mail RUN – Letters from readers about Comal, relative files, power surges, and more.
- Commodore Clinic – Questions answered about screen printing, getting public domain software, drives that work with an IEEE-488 interface, 801 printer problems, using a 1540 disk drive with the Commodore 64, deleting files from disk, PET and Commodore 64 compatibility, converting Apple II BASIC programs to the Commodore 64, and lots more.
- Book Gallery – Reviews of Discover Your VIC-20: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Programming, Commodore 64 Favorite Programs Explained, and Kids and the Commodore 64.
- New Products RUNdown – A brief look at new products including a Dual 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter for real-time applications, the SA-1000 12″ amber monitor, and Star Wars: The Arcade Game for the Commodore 64.
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The One (June 1993)
While The One covered various 16-bit computers over the course of its life, in 1993 this U.K. published gaming magazine was exclusively covering the Amiga. The June 1993 issue includes:
- Boot Sector – A look at what’s on the two cover disks included with this magazine including a demo of a graphics adventure game called Nippon Safes Inc. plus the complete games of Blaster, Tractor Beam and Alien Bash.
- News – A look at the winners of The Golden Joystick awards, new game announcements from Team 17, Virgin signs deal with Acclaim to publish games on the Amiga, new Street Fighter II pinball game, CyberDreams announces CyberRace, Madness: House of Fun coming from Gremlin, and much more.
- Letters – Letters from readers about sound in games, Balder’s Grove, game cheats, X-Wing, and more.
- One On One – An interview with members of the newly formed Asylum software house.
- In The Biz – A guide to getting into the gaming business.
- Work In Progress – Previews of games still in work including Bubba ‘N’ Stix, Realms of Darkness, Innocent – Until Caught, International Open Golf Championship, Maelstrom, The Second Samurai, The Cartoons, War in the Gulf, and Creepers.
- Reviews – Reviews of recent games including Goal! (Virgin), Humans – The Jurassic Levels (Mirage), Super Cauldron (Titus), Morph (Millennium), Firehawk (Codemasters), Ancient Art of War in the Skies (MicroProse), Entity (Loriciel), Son of the Empire (Mindscape), Woddy’s World (DMI), International Rugby Challenge (Domark), The Lost Vikings (Interplay), Transarctica (Silmarils), and Ishar (Silmarils).
- Updates – A look at a couple of games being enhanced specifically for the Amiga 1200 including Transarctica and Ishar.
- Cheapos – Reviews of some of the latest bargain releases including Bully’s Sporting Darts, Starblade, Maniac Mansion, Midwinter, Superski 2, Lost Dutchman Mines, Brides of Dracula, 4th & Inches, The Boston Bomb Club, Strikefleet, and The Greatest.
- Kill Zone – Tips, tricks, and strategies for Lionheart, The Chaos Engine, KGB, Chuck Rock 2, and more.
- PD Zone – A look at some of the latest public domain releases including Car Wars, AMOS Games Disk 2532, Talisman, Velcro Grub, Pipe Masters, The 17 Bit Collection, System Defender, Picture Puzzle, and Asteroids.
- Diary of a Game – The first in a series on the making of Alien Breed 2.
- Recommended – A summary of the top 50 or so games on the Amiga.
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