{"id":18830,"date":"2017-12-08T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=18830"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:11:25","slug":"commodore-power-play-winter-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/12\/08\/commodore-power-play-winter-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore Power Play &#8211; Winter 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Commodore_Power-Play_1982_Issue_03_V1_N03_Winter-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18831\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Commodore_Power-Play_1982_Issue_03_V1_N03_Winter-01-798x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"commodore_power-play_1982_issue_03_v1_n03_winter-01\" width=\"798\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_Power_Play%2Fcommodore_power_play_1982-03&amp;twg_show=Commodore_Power-Play_1982_Issue_03_V1_N03_Winter-01.jpg\">Commodore Power Play &#8211; Winter 1982\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For most of Commodore&#8217;s life they published magazines for their computers. Sometimes there were multiple titles. Commodore Power\/Play was a magazine dedicated to home uses of their computers, particularly entertainment and other mostly non-business type uses. Things like word processing, databases and spreadsheets were mostly left to their other publication. The Winter 1982 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Braindrops<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; from the editor<\/li>\n<li><b>We&#8217;re Glad You Asked<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Answers to reader questions<\/li>\n<li><b>Access: Commodore User Groups<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>User Hints<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Computer-Controlled Home<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; With devices like the Homebrain, you can manage your home more efficiently<\/li>\n<li><b>A VIC Piano<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Use your VIC 20 keyboard to make a little music<\/li>\n<li><b>The VIC Magician<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Random numbers and animation techniques from our resident wizard<\/li>\n<li><b>The Great Computer Rivalry<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; How the VIC 20 stacks up against the competition<\/li>\n<li><b>Joysticks, Paddles and Lightpens<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; An excerpt from the upcoming Commodore 64 Programmer&#8217;s Reference Guide<\/li>\n<li><b>Coupon Control<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Use this program to keep track of store coupons and save money<\/li>\n<li><b>Deflection<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Type and save this game for any Commodore computer, and learn a little in the process<\/li>\n<li><b>A Joystick Version of Slither<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; For those who have the early keyboard version of Slither<\/li>\n<li><b>Omega Race: The Finer Points<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Advice on how to score from the present champ<\/li>\n<li><b>Behind the Programs<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; An interview with Rick Adge, creator of Garden Wars<\/li>\n<li><b>High Scores<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>VIC Baseball<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Winner of the June Commodore Challenge contest. Type and save the program listing<\/li>\n<li><b>Making Friends with Sid<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; The first in a series on music synthesization on the Commodore 64<\/li>\n<li><b>A Little Exercise in Machine Language<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Get a feel for your computer&#8217;s native language<\/li>\n<li><b>Tele\/Scope<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Test your M.Q. (Modem Quotient)<\/li>\n<li><b>New Products<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Book Review<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; John O&#8217;Brien reviews Tim Hartnell&#8217;s Getting Acquainted with Your VIC 20<\/li>\n<li><b>Program Review<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Commodore&#8217;s BASIC Programming, Part II teach-yourself-programming package<\/li>\n<li><b>No More Pencils, No More Books<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; How Captain Zurgle Saved His Ship with Commodore&#8217;s Visible Solar System Cartridge, and Learned about Home Babysitter, Too.<\/li>\n<li><b>Get Serious<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; What&#8217;s happening on the POWERful side of Commodore<\/li>\n<li><b>Program Review: VICMON<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Commodore VIC 20 Price List<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/jquery-1.6.2-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/ebay_activeContent-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\ndocument.write('\\x3Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/cb?programId=1&campId=5337952703&toolId=10026&keyword=%28Commodore+64%2CVIC-20%29&width=560&height=400&font=1&textColor=000000&linkColor=0000AA&arrowColor=8BBC01&color1=709AEE&color2=[COLORTWO]&format=ImageLink&contentType=TEXT_AND_IMAGE&enableSearch=y&usePopularSearches=n&freeShipping=n&topRatedSeller=n&itemsWithPayPal=n&descriptionSearch=n&showKwCatLink=n&excludeCatId=&excludeKeyword=&catId=&disWithin=200&ctx=n&autoscroll=n&title=Commodore+64+or+VIC-20&flashEnabled=' + isFlashEnabled + '&pageTitle=' + _epn__pageTitle + '&cachebuster=' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000000 )) + '\">\\x3C\/script>' );\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Commodore Power Play &#8211; Winter 1982\u00a0 For most of Commodore&#8217;s life they published magazines for their computers. Sometimes there were multiple titles. Commodore Power\/Play was a magazine dedicated to home uses of their computers, particularly entertainment and other mostly non-business type uses. Things like word processing, databases and spreadsheets were mostly left to their other publication. The Winter 1982 issue includes: Braindrops\u00a0&#8211; from the editor We&#8217;re Glad You Asked\u00a0&#8211; Answers to reader questions Access: Commodore User Groups User Hints The Computer-Controlled Home\u00a0&#8211; With devices like the Homebrain, you can manage your home more efficiently A VIC Piano\u00a0&#8211; Use your VIC 20 keyboard to make a little music The VIC Magician\u00a0&#8211; Random numbers and animation techniques from our resident wizard The Great Computer Rivalry\u00a0&#8211; How the VIC 20 stacks up against the competition Joysticks, Paddles and Lightpens\u00a0&#8211; An excerpt from the upcoming Commodore 64 Programmer&#8217;s Reference Guide Coupon Control\u00a0&#8211; Use this program to keep track of store coupons and save money Deflection\u00a0&#8211; Type and save this game for any Commodore computer, and learn a little in the process A Joystick Version of Slither\u00a0&#8211; For those who have the early keyboard version of Slither Omega Race: The Finer Points\u00a0&#8211; Advice on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[370,471,473,1318,1885,1886],"class_list":["post-18830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","tag-c64","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-pet","tag-vic-20","tag-vic20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36380,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830\/revisions\/36380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}