{"id":30379,"date":"2022-12-27T17:40:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=30379"},"modified":"2023-01-04T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T18:43:11","slug":"computes-gazette-august-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/computes-gazette-august-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Compute!&#8217;s Gazette (August 1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGazette%2Fgazette_1983-08&amp;twg_show=Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30382\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-1177x1536.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001-92x120.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGazette%2Fgazette_1983-08&amp;twg_show=Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-001.jpg\">Compute!&#8217;s Gazette &#8211; Issue Number 2 &#8211; August 1983<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Compute!&#8217;s Gazette was the Commodore 8-bit spin-off of Compute!. It covered mainly the Commodore 64 but also the VIC-20, Commodore 128, and Plus 4 \/ Commodore 16 depending on the time period. It was published for about 12 years in one form or another. The August 1983 issue includes:<\/p>\n<h1>Features<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Your First Hour With A Computer<\/b> &#8211; Setting up and trying out your new (Commodore) computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Should You Join a Users Group?<\/b> &#8211; A short history of user groups and what to look for if a new one is forming in your area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Guide to Commodore User Groups<\/b> &#8211; A list of Commodore related user groups around the country and their contact information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>New Products for Commodore at Comdex\/Spring<\/b> &#8211; New Commodore related products introduced at the Spring 1983 COMDEX computer show include the Gorilla Banana printer from Leading Edge, the STX-80 printer from Star Micronics, the DP-8240 printer from Star Micronics, the Supermother expansion board for the VIC-20, the Super 8K and Super 16K memory expansion cartridges for the VIC-20, the VIGOR 3-slot expansion board for the VIC-20, the CC-2064 Centronics printer adapter cable for the C64 and VIC-20, the VIC\/64 Switch which allows connecting one disk drive and printer to up to 8 Commodore 64s or VIC-20s, plus lots of software and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Games<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Viper<\/b> &#8211; A type-in game for the C64 and VIC-20 in which you control a snake to eat and grow but you must avoid running into your tail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cylon Zap<\/b> &#8211; A type-in game for the C64 and VIC-20 in which you must defend your space station from kamikaze spaceships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Inside View: Programmer Jeff Minter<\/b> &#8211; An interview with Jeff Minter, author of Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Reviews<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Vanilla Pilot<\/b> &#8211; A PILOT programming implementation for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kickman<\/b> &#8211; A conversion of the Bally\/Midway arcade game of the same name by Commodore for the Commodore 64.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Frogger<\/b> &#8211; An excellent conversion of the Sega arcade game for the Commodore 64 by Sierra On-Line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>VIC Music Composer<\/b> &#8211; A music composition program for the VIC-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"attachment wp-att-30381\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=30381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30381\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-1172x1536.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007-92x120.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-007.jpg 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Education\/Home Applications<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Computing for Kids: Build a Computer Friend<\/b> &#8211; Writing a program that talks back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>VIC\/64 Mailing List<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 to store mailing list data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Computing for Grownups: Revolution in the Nursery<\/b> &#8211; The impact of computers in education and of kids teaching adults this new technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wordspell<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 designed to help teach spelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Global Scan<\/b> &#8211; A type-in geography related program for the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 that can compute distance between two sets of latitude and longitude coordinates and give the direction in degrees from one to the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Programming<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Machine Language for Beginners: The Easy Way<\/b> &#8211; Teaching machine language with an example program. The included type-in program for the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 is called RAMTest and tests your Random Access Memory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hints &amp; Tips: VIC Title Screens<\/b> &#8211; A short type-in program that creates nice title screens on the VIC-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Commodore 64 Hi-Res Graphics Made Simple<\/b> &#8211; Adding commands in BASIC to access the Commodore 64&#8217;s high resolution graphics mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Four-Speed Brake<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program that allows you to control the speed of the output of the LIST command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Disk Menu<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 that allows you to create disk menus and load programs via the menus you create.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Power BASIC: Using A 1540 Disk Drive &amp; Commodore 64<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program that will allow you to reliably use a 1540 drive with the Commodore 64. The 1540 drive was original designed for the VIC-20 whereas the 1541 was designed for the Commodore 64.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Beginner&#8217;s Corner: Playing Computer Music<\/b> &#8211; Creating sound and music on the VIC-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Departments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Editor&#8217;s Notes<\/b> &#8211; An overview of this month&#8217;s issue and a look ahead and some of the new things coming out for Commodore computers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Gazette Feedback<\/b> &#8211; Letters from readers about Commodore 64 and VIC-20 memory locations, assigning functions to function keys, monitors for the VIC-20, using a 1540 drive with a Commodore 64, using two disk drives with the Commodore 64, using standard cassette recorders with the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Compute!&#8217;s Gazette Author Guide<\/b> &#8211; A guide for submitting articles and programs to Compute!&#8217;s Gazette.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Simple Answers to Common Questions<\/b> &#8211; Questions answered about saving programs and disk errors and entering BASIC programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>HOTWARE: This Month&#8217;s Best Sellers<\/b> &#8211; A look at the best selling software for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 in various categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>VICreations<\/b> &#8211; How to take care of you disk drives, disks, cassette recorders, and cassettes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>64 Explorer<\/b> &#8211; A review of the Commodore 64 Programmer&#8217;s Reference Guide plus some info about the 1541 disk drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>News &amp; Products<\/b> &#8211; New products this month include Math Escape, Sea Word, Birthday Party and Sub Rescue educational games for the VIC-20; AE, a game from Broderbund for the VIC-20; Sky Blazer, a World War III arcade game for the VIC-20 from Broderbund; Choplifter by Broderbund for the Commodore 64; Serpentine by Broderbund for the Commodore 64; David&#8217;s Midnight Magic from Broderbund for the Commodore 64; Script 64, a word processor for the Commodore 64; Word Wizard, a word processor for the VIC-20; and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30380\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-779x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-1168x1536.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132-91x120.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Compute_Gazette_Issue_02_1983_Aug-132.jpg 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Compute!&#8217;s Gazette &#8211; Issue Number 2 &#8211; August 1983 Compute!&#8217;s Gazette was the Commodore 8-bit spin-off of Compute!. It covered mainly the Commodore 64 but also the VIC-20, Commodore 128, and Plus 4 \/ Commodore 16 depending on the time period. It was published for about 12 years in one form or another. The August 1983 issue includes: Features Your First Hour With A Computer &#8211; Setting up and trying out your new (Commodore) computer. Should You Join a Users Group? &#8211; A short history of user groups and what to look for if a new one is forming in your area. A Guide to Commodore User Groups &#8211; A list of Commodore related user groups around the country and their contact information. New Products for Commodore at Comdex\/Spring &#8211; New Commodore related products introduced at the Spring 1983 COMDEX computer show include the Gorilla Banana printer from Leading Edge, the STX-80 printer from Star Micronics, the DP-8240 printer from Star Micronics, the Supermother expansion board for the VIC-20, the Super 8K and Super 16K memory expansion cartridges for the VIC-20, the VIGOR 3-slot expansion board for the VIC-20, the CC-2064 Centronics printer adapter cable for the C64 and [&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":[471,473,2362,1885],"class_list":["post-30379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-retrocomputing","tag-vic-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379","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=30379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30447,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions\/30447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}