{"id":36531,"date":"2026-02-04T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=36531"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:01:29","slug":"run-the-commodore-64-128-users-guide-may-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/run-the-commodore-64-128-users-guide-may-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"RUN: The Commodore 64\/128 User&#8217;s Guide (May 1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FRun%2Frun_1988-05&amp;twg_show=Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-01.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUN was one of the Commodore 64 related magazines that I bought back in the day. However, I didn&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>RUNning Ruminations<\/b> &#8211; How the Commodore 64 has aged better than some PC models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Magic &#8211; 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.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>News and New Products<\/b> &#8211; 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&#215;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.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mail Run<\/b> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Software Gallery<\/b> &#8211; Reviews of Deja Vu, Instant Music, Apollo 18, Darkhorn, Halls of Montezuma, Cholo, Dark Lord, and Strategist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Goto Programming<\/b> &#8211; A guide to programming from Jim Butterfield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=36533\" class=\"attachment wp-att-36533 keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-757x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-1135x1536.jpg 1135w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03-89x120.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-03.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Basic Adventure<\/b> &#8211; A guide to handling the data needed for programming your own adventure game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<li><b>The Assembly Line<\/b> &#8211; A guide to assemblers on the Commodore 64\/128.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Graphix to the Max<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for converting 40-column graphical displays to 80-column on the Commodore 128.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Drip-Drop<\/b> &#8211; A type-in game for the Commodore 64 in which you must use buckets to catch raindrops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Moving Messages<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for the Commodore 64 that lets you scroll large messages across the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tick-Tock 128<\/b> &#8211; A type-in program for the Commodore 128 that displays a 12-hour analog clock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>geoWatch<\/b> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Telecomputing Workshop<\/b> &#8211; A comparison of Q-Link and GEnie prices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Commodore Clinic<\/b> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mega-Magic<\/b> &#8211; A short program to delete and save a new version of a file with one command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-758x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-1138x1536.jpg 1138w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96-89x120.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Run_Issue_53_1988_May-96.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUN was one of the Commodore 64 related magazines that I bought back in the day. However, I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; How the Commodore 64 has aged better than some PC models. Magic &#8211; 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 &#8211; 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&#215;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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; Reviews of Deja Vu, Instant Music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[471,472,473,486,2362],"class_list":["post-36531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-128","tag-commodore-64","tag-computers","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531","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=36531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36687,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions\/36687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}