{"id":7037,"date":"2014-10-09T13:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:51:39","slug":"commodore-world-issue-number-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/09\/commodore-world-issue-number-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore World, Issue Number 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_World%2FCommodore_World_07&amp;twg_show=Commodore_World_Issue_07-01.jpg\">Commodore World, Issue Number 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_World%2FCommodore_World_07&amp;twg_show=Commodore_World_Issue_07-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/commodore_world_issue_07-011.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Commodore64128.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Commodore World was really the last commercial print Commodore 64 related magazine published in the U.S. Published my Creative Micro Designs (CMD), it was largely a vehicle to advertise their hardware products. However, it had a lot of good content as well. Issue Number 7 from 1995 includes:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Surviving the 90s<\/b> &#8211; Keep your Commodore useful for years to come.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bonus Review: A Tale of Two Printers<\/b> &#8211; That FGM guy recounts his experiences of buying a new inkjet printer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Software: Two Tax Packages<\/b> &#8211; Don&#8217;t let the IRS tax your mind as well as your income.<\/li>\n<li><b>Games: Miniviews<\/b> &#8211; Mean Streets, Questron II, Stickybear Math and Memory Manor.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardware: Cartridge Port Expanders<\/b> &#8211; Find out what CMD&#8217;s EX3 and EX2+1 are, and what they can do for you.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardware: CMD&#8217;s GamePad<\/b> &#8211; Your games may take on a new life using this sega-style controller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Columns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Just For Starters<\/b> &#8211; Steve eases new users into peeks, pokes, and disk commands.<\/li>\n<li><b>Foreign Exchange<\/b> &#8211; Take a closer look at Scanntronik, Germany&#8217;s video hardware source.<\/li>\n<li><b>Graphic Interpretation<\/b> &#8211; Taking advantage of geoWrite is just a matter of using the right tools!<\/li>\n<li><b>geoProgrammist<\/b> &#8211; Introductory steps to building a dialog box in GEOS.<\/li>\n<li><b>Basic Instincts<\/b> &#8211; Replace those INPUT commands with clean input subroutines.<\/li>\n<li><b>SCSI Magic<\/b> &#8211; Add removable media SCSI drives to your CMD HD system.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hard Tips: Video Cables<\/b> &#8211; Build the right cable for your computer and monitor combination.<\/li>\n<li><b>Peripheral Vision<\/b> &#8211; Ease your disk operations with a DOS Wedge.<\/li>\n<li><b>Carrier Detect<\/b> &#8211; Take some &#8216;netiquette&#8217; lessons from our telecommunications expert.<\/li>\n<li><b>Over the Edge<\/b> &#8211; Getting your spouse involved with computing may not be the right thing to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the Editor<\/li>\n<li>Backtalk<\/li>\n<li>On the Horizon<\/li>\n<li>The Connection<\/li>\n<li>Top Tips<\/li>\n<li>Commodore User Groups<\/li>\n<li>Commodore Trivia<\/li>\n<li>Classified Ads<\/li>\n<li>Advertiser&#8217;s Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodore World, Issue Number 7 Commodore World was really the last commercial print Commodore 64 related magazine published in the U.S. Published my Creative Micro Designs (CMD), it was largely a vehicle to advertise their hardware products. However, it had a lot of good content as well. Issue Number 7 from 1995 includes: Features Surviving the 90s &#8211; Keep your Commodore useful for years to come. Bonus Review: A Tale of Two Printers &#8211; That FGM guy recounts his experiences of buying a new inkjet printer. Reviews Software: Two Tax Packages &#8211; Don&#8217;t let the IRS tax your mind as well as your income. Games: Miniviews &#8211; Mean Streets, Questron II, Stickybear Math and Memory Manor. Hardware: Cartridge Port Expanders &#8211; Find out what CMD&#8217;s EX3 and EX2+1 are, and what they can do for you. Hardware: CMD&#8217;s GamePad &#8211; Your games may take on a new life using this sega-style controller. Columns Just For Starters &#8211; Steve eases new users into peeks, pokes, and disk commands. Foreign Exchange &#8211; Take a closer look at Scanntronik, Germany&#8217;s video hardware source. Graphic Interpretation &#8211; Taking advantage of geoWrite is just a matter of using the right tools! geoProgrammist &#8211; Introductory steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[368,370,471,472,473],"class_list":["post-7037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","tag-c128","tag-c64","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-128","tag-commodore-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037","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=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}