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  • Your Commodore (November 1986)

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    Source: Your Commodore – Issue Number 26 – November 1986



    Your Commodore was one of a number of Commodore specific magazines published in the U.K. It focused on Commodore’s various 8-bit computers, primarily the Commodore 64. However, the November 1986 issue’s cover features the “new” Plus/4 and C-16 which ended up being wildly unpopular. One step forward and two steps back I would say, plus they were incompatible with the C-64. This issue includes:

    Regulars

    • Data Statements
    • Easy Enter
    • Software for Sale
    • Competition
    • Club 128
    • Games Reviews
    • Contributions
    • Letters
    • Welcome to the Machine
    • Back Page

    Games and Utilities

    • Into the Eighties – 80 column mode come true.
    • C16 Sound Sampler – Now you can chat to your C16.
    • C64 Autosave – Cut down on time and frustration.
    • Making Data – Two versions – one for the 64 and one for the 128.

    Features

    • Write On – Parasoft’s Script/Plus reviewed.
    • Disk Doc – Stuart Cooke on a new utility.
    • Disk Utility – What you can get from our free Utilities.
    • Extended Basic – How to use our Extended basic.
    • Newsroom – How you can be a newspaper tycoon.
    • Video Basic – Switch on Adamsoft’s Video Basic.
    • Pick of the Sticks – Zap through some new joysticks.
    • R1D1 – How to play our free game.
    • MIDI, Music and You – The mysteries of MIDI unveiled.
    • Quick on the Draw – Three new graphics packages.

    …and more!


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  • Compute!’s Gazette (March 1986)

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    Source: Compute!’s Gazette – March 1986



    Compute!’s Gazette was one of the most popular Commodore 8-bit magazines in the U.S. and the most successful spin-off of Compute! The March 1986 issue includes:

    Features

    • What’s New Online for Commodore
    • The Commodore SIG
    • A Buyer’s Guide to Modems

    Reviews

    • Movie Maker
    • Perry Mason: The Case of the Manderin Murder
    • Dambusters
    • Fighter Command
    • Spellbreaker
    • Touchdown Football

    Games

    • Survivor
    • Shifter

    Education/Home Applications

    • Computing for Families: Storytelling to Read
    • Number Construction Kit

    Programming

    • Hints & Tips: Timesavers
    • BASIC Magic: String Variables in READ and DATA Statements
    • Machine Language for Beginners: Machine Maps
    • Power BASIC: Keyboard to Joystick Converter
    • The Coordinator
    • Storage and Display: Using Peripherals with the 128
    • ASCII Teleconverter
    • Cataloger
    • VICDump
    • 128 Auto Boot
    • Clavier 64

    Departments

    • The Editor’s Notes
    • Gazette Feedback
    • User Group Update
    • Simple Answers to Common Questions
    • News & Products
    • Bug-Swatter: Modifications and Corrections

    Program Listings

    • MLX: Machine Language Entry Program
    • COMPUTE!’s Gazette Author’s Guide
    • How to Type In COMPUTE!s Gazette Programs

    …and more!


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  • Commodore Microcomputers – September/October 1984

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    Commodore Microcomputers – September October 1984


    Commodore Microcomputers was an official Commodore publication that covered all of Commodore’s computers. In the September/October 1984 issue that included the Commodore 64, VIC-20, as well as the CBM, PET and SuperPET lines. The contents of this issue includes:

    Features

    • The Quest for Enhanced Productivity: Commodore Meets the Challenge – This article covers the various productivity software produced by Commodore. This includes the built-in software suite of the Plus/4, a spreadsheet program (Easy Calc), a financial package called Easy Finance, automatic spell correcting software called Easy Spell, home accounting software (Silent Butler), a business accounting software package (General Ledger), and graph creating software called B/Graph.
    • Easy Script is Easy – A beginner’s guide to Easy Script, Commodore’s word processing software for the Commodore 64.
    • Four Word Processors for the Commodore 64 – A comparison of four word process for the Commodore 64, including Bank Street Writer, Cut and Paste, Word Manager, and Super-Text
    • Databases – An overview of the various database software available for Commodore computers and their features.
    • Spreadsheets: Number Processing with Multiplan and Practicalc – An overview of two spreadsheet programs available for the Commodore 64, Multiplan and Practicalc.
    • Productivity Software for Commodore Computers: A Complete List – It says ‘complete’ and I would take their word for it. A brief overview of dozens of spreadsheet, database, finance and word processing programs for various Commodore computers.

    Using Your Computer

    • Business – An article about using Commodore computers to help run a small city.
    • Education – An overview of four educational software programs including a program teaching division (Frenzy), a geometry program (Flip Flop), a program providing addition and multiplication practice (Gulp), and a program teaching directionality (Arrow Graphics).
    • Travel – An article discussing the perils, pitfalls and challenges of international travel with a computer.

    Understanding Your Computer

    • Programmer’s Tips
      • Random Thoughts, Part 7: Fun and Games – Discussing the use of random number in gaming and in audio/video demos.
      • Cassette Files for PET/CBM – A program for creating files on cassettes written for the Commodore 8032.
      • Two High-Res Screen Dumps for the 64 – Two different programs (for different printers) to print out graphics saved with LOGO, KoalaPad or saved with standard Kernel routines.
      • Kaleidoscope for the PET and Commodore 64 – This type-in program generates a constantly changing kaleidoscope display on your Commodore 64 or PET.
    • Technical Tips
      • Prime Numbers – A program for estimating the number of prime numbers between 1 and 1000.
      • Adding a Hex Keypad to Your PET/CBM – Instructions for constructing a Hex based keypad for your Commodore.
      • Inverse Trigonometric Functions – A program using inverse trigonometric functions to calculate distance.
    • 64 Users Only
      • Screen Box Data Display Routines – Code to add input and output data boxes to your own programs.
      • Memory Loader/Saver for the Commodore 64 – A program for saving different sections of Commodore 64 memory to disk.
      • Appending Machine Code Routines to Your BASIC Programs for the 64 – A program for easily adding machine code subroutines to your BASIC Commodore 64 programs.
    • PET/CBM Users Only: Line Formatting – A tool for making your program listings easier to read.
    • SuperPET Users Only: SuperPET Potpourri – Using loops and other programming tips for the SuperPET.

    Reviews

    • Hardware: HesModem I – Review of a 300 baud modem for the Commodore 64 and VIC 20.
    • Software
      • Database Manager – Review of a rather generically named database management program for the Commodore 64.
      • Tool 64 – A tool for programming that adds more BASIC commands as well as various editing and debugging utilities.
      • Write Now! – Review of a simple word processing program for the Commodore 64.

    Departments

    • Letters – Letters about cryptography and VIC 20s used in hospitals among other topics.
    • Editor’s Notes – Coverage of the June 1984 Consumer Electronics Show.
    • Industry News – An article about the expected massive growth in software (sales not size though both had massive growth).
    • User Groups – A list of Commodore related user groups throughout the country.
    • That Does Not Compute – Correcting mistakes in past issues.
    • Advertisers’ Index

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