Compute!'s Gazette (November 1983)
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Compute!'s Gazette was the one really successful spinoff of Compute! and one of the most popular Commodore 8-bit specific magazines in North America. The November 1983 issue (only the 5th issue) includes:
Features
- Computer Graphics - The Age of Electronic Art
- The Inner World of Computers, Part 1: Binary Numbers
Games
- Inside View - Programmers Dale Disharoon & Jim Bach
- Chicken Little
Reviews
- Colorcraft Graphics Animator for VIC and 64
- VIC Preschool Software
- Four Tronix Games For VIC and 64
Education / Home Applications
- Computing For Kids - There's a Creature in my Computer!
- Munchmath
- VIC Super Expander Graphics
- 64 Aardvark Attack
- 64 Timepiece
Programming
- Introduction to Custom Characters for VIC and 64
- How to Make Custom Characters on the 64
- How to Make Custom Characters on the VIC
- VIC/64 Program Lifesaver
- Understanding Sound on the 64: Part 2
- Merging Programs on the 64
- The Beginner's Corner - DATA, READ, and RESTORE Statements
- One-Touch Commands for the 64
Departments
- The Editor's Note
- Gazette Feedback
- Simple Answers to Common Questions
- HOTWARE - This Month's Best Sellers
- VICreations - Animating with Custom Characters
Program Listings
- The Automatic Proofreader
- Bug-Swatter - Modifications & Corrections
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Crap! I remember that very magazine issue!
As you know the Atari was my thing, but I remember how important this was!
In my neighborhood in the mid to late 1980s I had a few friends with computers. One had a Commodore 64, another had a Commodore 128 and another had a Radio Shack/Tandy Color Computer 3. I didn't know anybody with an Atari in my neighborhood. I knew a guy in 7th grade who had an Atari ST though.
It was chance I ended up with the C64 I guess. My neighbor's C64 was the first computer I really played with and then that was what I wanted. If he would have had an Atari then that's what I probably would have wound up with. But in retrospect I'm glad I had the Commodore as it was supported by third party developers quite a while longer than the Atari. The C64 was my main and only computer until late 1993 :).