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savetz writes "I think /. readers will find this of interest: the Classic Computer Magazine Archive serves up the full text from old compter mags: three years of Creative Computing plus every issue of Antic, STart, and Hi-Res. There's also a bit of text from Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette. Everything is there with permission from the publishers."
Now I can finally type in the hex code for CrossRoads all over again. It was only 10 or so pages full of hex codes, should be fun.
Man that game was great.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
- adam
another popular computer related magazine from the past, atari age.
... remember the old BASIC programs in 3-2-1 Contact? :)
Looks like the site has been /.ed already. I wonder if they've got old Amiga World and Info magazine? That would make my day.
I still have some copies of them sitting in boxes - it'd give me a great excuse to recycle them if they're electronic.
Ah yes, when computer magazines weren't 90% ads, and contained genuinely useful and interesting, intelligtently written articles covering a myriad of topics both popular and obscure.
:-(
Where did you go?
It's a Unix system - I know this.
These truly are classics... Reminds me of spending hours and hours typing pages and pages of hex codes in... Good times... :)
Platform independent bug tracking software
...now *THERES* a classic.
I can't be the only one to wait excitedly each month for my copy!
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My father actually has a lot of 'OMNI' and 'OMEGA' science magazines, i'm not sure if you guys had them in the states but in Australia they were popular science magazines in the early 80's. It's good to read through theories that either still stand today or have been proven right or wrong.
I read through the reviews of the 'latest' technology the time had to offer, it's quite an interesting read. As well as classic computer ads such as the house that burnt down and the Apple IIe was the only things besides the cat that survived.
Did you know that sega's first consoles had tape decks? The magazines are quite old. I'll scan them one day.
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I heard that. Creative Computing was the magazine that got me really excited about computers. The collection of stuff was always eclectic, humorous, informative, and driven by a passion to communicate the excitement of the new world that was opening up. Younger people should be rightly suspicious when old coots start prattling about how much better things were in the day, but I'm here to bear witness that every now and then things really were better, and Creative Computing was one of those things.
Seems to have been slashdotted into submission. They should have gone with a ][e.
Whoah.. check out this page of the magazine:
/ vol1no3/5.jpg ...and then this one, a couple of pages later...
/ vol1no3/7.jpg
http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/atariage
http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/atariage
I wanna make a joke, but I don't wanna sound homophobic! Were the 80's really like that?!
Interesting idea.. but I know of a way that you can see decades of archived magazines and newspapers! Did you know that these places usually let you see movies for free without the MPAA breathing down their necks? I know I should've posted AC because the secret is out. But go here to see what I mean.
Oh what I wouldn't give for every issue of Electronic Games Magazine. The publication was the magazine to read from 1981-85. It offered reviews, strategy guides, and more, for arcade and home games in the golden age of video gaming. Here is a Website with all of the magazines covers, and blurbs about each issue. Today, issues of Electronic Games are coveted, and fetch a pretty decent penny on Ebay. Loomis
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
When I was young, I read every one of these publications. Learned more than I could use at the time.
Today, it is not so important to know that poke 710,0 would turn the screen background black on an Atari. Their time has passed for the most part and we could all focus our energy elsewhere today.
It is important to remember the spirit of the times though. Hacking around the guts of your machine was encouraged and reported on! New techiques covered every aspect of these machines as people used them in almost every way, but the way they were designed for!
What the Fu*k happened? People who only smell money and have no regard for others is what happened! We should be ashamed for letting them.
One interesting thing was the included source code and programming techniques. Compute used to publish games and utilities written for all the major machines at the time! Never thought about it much as a kid, just thought it was cool.
Fast forward today and what is that exactly? Open source! Not only that, but in popular publications where EVERYONE COULD SEE!
A lot could be done with this code and it made each issue worth its purchase price.
Open source preserves this spirit with todays hardware. Instead of text editors, assemblers, sprite editors we get Office Suites, C Compiliers, and OpenGL modelers.
Seriously, the technology to meet everyones basic computing needs is already done! Nobody should have to keep paying and paying for it.
Thanks for a nice reminder of exactly why I choose to use Open Tools! Somehow we need to get more people in the know. Once they do, they will never go back. Just as none of us who actually read these things did!
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Antic was crap compared to Analog. Analog always published cool programs and insightful articles, while Antic wanted to be the PC Magazine of Atari. It's a shame that medocrity is remembered so well.
Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
To note, they had some custom assembler program (I believe it was called MLX) that was written in BASIC. Basically, you would have to spit out some lines of Hex Codes for each Memory segment to load, or something. The interesting thing was that if you mistyped the code in teh magazine, it would give an annoying buzz, telling you it was bad.
The reason I'm ranting about this...I remember typing a SHITLOAD of this code one time and the power went out before I saved any of it, and the original C64 keyboards weren't all the ergonomic to begin with...i learned to save my work much more often after that ;)
Sigh, the memories :">
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...that my wife will now make me throw out all of my original copies? :-O
Forgive me if my memory is off, but i believe a one-year suscription was $29.95 with just the magazines and $79.95 with the disk...my parents weren't THAT rich :)
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Juntis has to know about all these great things for his C=64 !
Now this is the magazine I want to see in the archives.
I remember it from growing up; published by CTW (the same people who do Sesame Street and did 3-2-1 Contact!". Cool magazine for kids; I still have the issue where they discussed all that was wrong with "Wargames: The movie".
Each edition had sample code (BASIC or Assembler) in the back of each issue you could type in and run. Oh, and the classic ads for Popeye, Q-bert, and Lode Runner. Ah, those were the days....
(A.C., who grew up on TI-Basic and a 99/4A)
... and we slashdot them straight out of existence.
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
Back in the day, most of the games i played on my amiga 1000 came out of the pages of compute magazine. Ive been looking for years for old issues of compute. I'd like to obtain sources for some of thoes old games like switch box ( one of my favorites) and hex etc and port them to fbsd/ win32.
I notice that they don't really include the old Byte magazines. Well, I suppose there's a good reason for that: hard drives aren't big enough yet for the "telephone book" editions. :)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
The cover story was "Why PC's Crash, and Mainframes Don't". Still as true today as it was 8 years ago.
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When my parents went grocery shopping I used to always get them to buy me one of those gazette mags. At that time I didn't understood what the code did, but they had that checksum program to make sure you typed it in right (usually).
There was this one game I remember that was like an RPG that was several pages long. It took forever to type it all in by chicken peck typing. When I was done I ran the checksum and it passed so I saved it all to cassette tape which ended up messing it up and the whole thing got screwed and I think that was the first time I really lost it.
There was also one program I also remember in an october issue (I think) that made this face animate into a werewolf face. When I got it running I stuck the monitor in my window for halloween.
The rest of the 80's I think I spent playing flight sims and reading the choose your own adventure type books.
Or was it Nybble ? This was an Apple II magazine that contained the complete source code for tons of cool, sometimes-commercial-level programs. Half the time the code was in BASIC, the other half of the time the code was in 6502 assembler. If you want to go blind, try entering 10-20 pages or more of straight-up hexadecimal. Ahh, the days
This one isn't /.ed!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
This was the greatest of all Commodore-related magazines; it had THE most technical articles and code (most of it assembly, or the insane read-data equivalent). Those guys totally maxed out the C64, the C128 and the Amigas, doing unbelievable stuff - I still remember writing my own beginning assembly, and sticking the code into that strange "protected" memory area, and then typing 'sys 49152' to execute...
Ah, memories...
Yes, people really did wear tight shorts like that... although really, Bert and Ernie and Indiana Jones are the same today as they always were.
You just wait a few years until some whippersnapper makes fun of the 90s! "MY GOD, LOOK AT THOSE TATOOS!"
At least the tight shorts can be removed...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
All sites on atarimagazines.com with atari in the text. Just remember to click on the "cached" link!
Hmmm. The site seems to be /.ed at the moment, so there's no way for me to tell if they include archives of the British C64 gaming mag ZZap64, which was a cut above the rest, so here's a link to ZZap64
What I wouldn't do for just one more day with that tiny rag... with its Apple ][ high score list at the back, the new adventure game every issue, the 3-D maze tutorial column... (sigh)
I loved Compute! Damn I miss my old commodore!
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
Old Byte mags (back when Ciarcia was writing for them) would rock, as well.
Hell, even old DDJ, back before it became the watered down dross it is today. It's still about the best left, but only because it doesn't really have competition, IMHO.
Wow, in my wee days I loved to play with my Atari ST and my Apple IIe. I loved opening up STart and looking for things to program into my ST. That was really the only way I could get a lot of fun out of the Atari. Being a little kid in a humble home with parents that weren't really into computers, I couldn't really get any games for my systems ( except once a year for my b-day). So yeah, I did have games like Dungeon Master, some spy hunter ripoff, and Tanglewood (which I never finished). But those are only a few games that I usually grew tired of after a few months. But after getting STart, I would always hope that they would have a game that I could program in.
;) ). And that's what makes me just a little bit sadder.
I remember once my parents bought for me a 10 disc collection of shareware games for the Atari, but I think only 1/3 of them actually worked, and 1/2 of those didn't like my joystick driver.
So when I finally got my IIe (hand me down from a cousin), and their collection of games, I loved that I could finally play with some. I loved playing all the Eamon games and of course whatever games my cousin had ( hehe, mention "brun choplifter" now to someone and they'd probably think it's some new German salad dicer ) But now with these games I programmed less and tended to try less things (although I do recall making some programs requiring call -151 in them)
Nowadays, I look back with my PS2 and my PC games requiring the latest and greatest video card, and it's a little sad to see that things will never be like how they were back then. Sure, I've tried going back and trying some of those games, but it's just not the same anymore.
A little kid now doesn't really have a chance to make a game, unless they somehow can learn how to write in a major languauge, utilize OpenGL or DirectX, create textures, etc, whereas when I was a kid, none of that was needed. I could make a game that, although certainly not up to par with a commecial game, could entertain me for a while. What's the chance now that a kid could make something that would (graphically as well) entertain a typical kid, as well as say, super smash brothers, Gran Turismo 3, or GTA3VC (although kids shouldn't be playing with that last one
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Gawd, I loved those magazines. Antic was terrific...I lovingly dwelled over each one. And then I got a big score, when I inherited my Uncle's C=64, I got like 5 years of Compute's Gazette...WITH DISKS! So I didn't have to type in all those programs (though I put in my share of type in.)
... check 'em out, they're both great.
Anyway, one of the best unknown games for the C=64 came from that magazine...Crossroads! (and its sequal) It was so cool, using character graphics with pixelated explosions to put hundreds of monsters on screen, each with their own allies and enemies among the other monsters. I wrote a review of both games that's at
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
Doesn't anyone remember Electronic Fun with Computers and Games? There was a classic magazine!
In Linux:
Wget -m http://www.atarimagazines.com/
In Windows:
Pay some peverted price for a GUI that kinda sorta works.
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I think I have copies of both editions buried in my mother's basement, but it would be nice for it to be available on the web, if for no other reason than nostalgia.
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Commodore magazines
I recently picked up a copy of CPU (Computer Power User) at the airport having done lots of recent travel and exhausting my normal magazines.
I was impressed. It was a balanced mag between hardware, software, Linux, Windows, and OSX.
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
They're high on nostalgia, and host the website of an Atari 130-XE... it just takes some time to get the pages... ;)
- Get cygwin
- wget -m http://www.atarimagazines.com
And nothing beats bash scripts running under Win2k.The site is totally SlashDotted, so I can't check, but does this site have any old SoftSide magazines posted? That was my personal favorite, especially the nifty games written by Sheldon Leemon.
-- thinkyhead software and media
Didn't see it on the first glance through.
:)
K-Power was my mag of choice, so many cool basic programs, ported (heh) to TI-99/4a. Apple IIe, Atari-ST, Commodore, etc etc.
Sadly they became Family (VOMIT) computing and stopping being so damn cool..
Still have some old k-power issues....reminds me of late nights and the TI coding away in basic, saving to tape, then mailing the printout and the tape the next day. Only to receive a bump letter a few weeks later
Cool - now I can prove I really am a published author without having to bringing in my mint-condition May 1986 copy of Antic from its protective encasing at home :-).
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n1/derejoystick.ht ml
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One - I remember a two-part article in Byte that was the most informative article on game tree searching imaginable - they implimented min-max then turned it to nega max and implinted alpha-beta and prefered variation - all in Basic!
I remember another article in a magazine called ROM that implimented public key cryptography in BASIC way before PGP existed....
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Wow, I remember Creative Computing. Was a GEM of a magazine. Heck I still have about 5 years of issues still in my parents attic.
Creative Computing and David H. Ahl got me started in computing. I remember in the late 70's Reading the magazine, typing in the basic (that didn't work right out of the magazine on a TRaSh-80) and having the time of my life making the stuff work.
The Ahl benchmarks were my favorite. I'd type them into everthing and submit the results religiously. My highpoint was when David Ahl sent me a letter thanking me for my contributions. A few years later a bad review of the PCjr killed Creative Computing and David joined one of the Atari Rags.
I made the trip to an Atari show in DC to meet him and loved listening to him. Heck my Atari ST's, portfolio's, 800's, XL's and Stacy were great toys of there era, but it really disappointed me to see my past hero, whoring for a single vendor rag.
Its really sad to hear of David as an insurance sales man. Heck he started me rolling on the Computer path, and now he's off it.
At least these sites bring up memories. Now I guess its time to go dig up my old Atari's and see if they work. Then revisit some of the programs in these journals.
Gator/Claria is Spyware.
Those were some great games, I remember Conan, Gato, Silent Service, Wings of Fury & many others (man that makes me want to find an Apple II and play those games again) Have to make sure the kids know where their new fangled FPS came from!
Show me one Microsoft innovation and I'll eat my Red Hat.
Have you seen cowboy neal lately? I'm thinking the jaws of life would be required!
I remember typing in the code. The game was great and my friends all wanted to play it. Typing in the hex was sure harder than typing in BASIC on my 1K Sinclair that I built from a kit.
I still have boxes of Compute!, Analog, Antic and Softside magazines. I learned tons of things from all of them, but had the most fun with Softside - a magazine with enormous type-in BASIC programs that were full-blown games. My mother's favourite game on our Atari 800 was the "Master's Golf" game I typed in from a Softside magazine.
I wish I still had the April Fools issue of Creative Computing. That whole issue was simply brilliant.
Now I want to set up my Atari 130XE again, or maybe play "Castles of Dr. Creep" on my C64... *sigh*...
Is there a place on the web to get old (197?-198?) BYTE or DECProfessional? I loved those old mags, and still read the ones I have.
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I also remember a game called Nipple but I was too young to play at that time.
"Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old soomka !"
Glad to seen the Atari vs Amiga vs Apple folks are still alive and willing to defend thier platforms of choice.
Anyway, does anyone remember COMPUTIST magazine? I just inherited 5 years worth from a ex-pal's nasty divorce (He knew I would take care of them where his ex might have thrown them out). I placed them with my 198x - 1994 editions of: Compute (before they split into separate rags), Compute Amiga, Compute Apple, A2, GS+, InCider, and, of course, my favorite, Nibble.
Now all I have to do is find a scanner that works under Linux so I can archive these 600+ retro magazines.
And just to start an argument, I'll bet that my
Apple can take out your Amiga and Atari!
Enjoy
It's just the normal noises in here.
"the Classic Computer Magazine Archive serves up the full text from old "
well make that served
I know Jaguar is wonderful, but darn it, I was just getting good at PowerPlant. Oh well.
Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
When I get a hankerin' for some of that "back in the day" goodness, I find a handheld game, like Yahtzee or Battleship, for example (they help provide instant ideas and present a palatable project duration), and then sit down at my Atari 130XE and create my own version over a weekend, sometimes in a single sitting.
In an ancient world devoid of the need for multi-threading, exception handling, and lengthy design documentation, it's amazing how fast the assembly language flows from your fingertips.
It's quite a refreshing diversion, and allows me to recapture those carefree days.
Sorry memory failing...
;)
I think it had 64k but I think it was an AtariXE. Atari64 is me screwing up
PC Tech Journal and goddam Will Fastie. The biggest idiot to ever have anything to do with a computer magazine, with the possible exception of Jerry (Plugola) Pournelle.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
And my own Falcon Desktop page(menus only work in IE)
The Falcon still is a remarkable machine, full gui and tcp/ip stack plus webbrowser and a few other goodies would all fit on a floppy. Maybe one day I will get some time to scan in the reviews from ST Format and ST user. MultiTos added a BSD based multitasking kernel which was only 64k(Apple was not the first to create a consumer based *nix computer MINT)TOS
... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
I would actually. retro pr0n certainly gets me going...
The website asks that you do not mirror the content.
:-)
:-)
OK, you will do this anyways (I did some months back
IF you're going to do this, you can go easy on Kevin's site. Pick one:
1) "cron" or "at" the wget for some date in the future. Really, are you going to read it all tomorrow??
2) Add in a --wait=1 to put a 1 sec pause between gets.
Seriously, this is a labor of love and I don't think advertising pays the bills. Don't swamp his bandwidth for data you will just slap on a CD.
This reminds me.. I still need to return Kevin's magazines..
Apparently the magazines don't have enough market value to be successfully sold, but have enough that the publisher that has already made his money isn't willing to give back to the community because he sees $$$ signs.
C'est la vie--I've got my paper ones.
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Before I bought my copy of Zork, I have this memory of reading a review of it in Creative Computing written by Isaac Asimov. Was this just some dream I had. It seems too strange to be true.
It's really great that these kinds of things are finally being archived and shown to the world. Not only is it good for nostalgia, but it's a nice research pool for those of us who like to learn from the past.
However, one thing I've never seen posted in these kinds of online compilations (and not in the Google cache of this posting) are the original advertisements. Whatever your opinion on Big Evil Corporations (tm), it's really fascinating to see how the business world dealt with emerging trends. And how they understood (or misunderstood) the market.
I've spent a fair amount of time in the library looking at bound copies of old tech magazines, and while rewarding it does take a lot of time in dead-tree format. Does anybody know of any online compilations of this sort with ads included? Or even better, compilations of just ads?
If not for Creative Computing, Compute!, and books such as More Basic Computer Games I'd be pumping gas somewhere... hmm perhaps this reference should be retired. Anyway, I learned to code with my old Atari (do not bump the table while saving to tape!) 400 and these publications, and I'm lucky enough to get paid to code today.
I still have some copies of Compute from 1981 laying around here somewhere. They make for intersting reading especially with adverts such as:
48k memory upgrade board only $149
Ah, the good ole days.
While the site is down due to /. effect, you can still search the site at http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=6140981. Sort of like reading the abstracts ...
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I wrote three articles for STart back in the 'day. I was a big CAD-3D fan (useless trivia: the initial developers of 3DS Max began with CAD-3D for the ST). By the time I had written my third article the Atari market had flamed out quite completely and I was never paid for it. Tellingly, it was for a PC emulation product. Later I sold my ST, with its excellent Mac emulator, and leapt off into the abyss of computers that are still with us today.
EDU MAN!
(Does anyone else remember that "Wonder Warthog" parody in CC?)
I've been searching for this article, hoping that somewhere, someone had reprinted it. When this first article came out, I printed the maxims and put them on the wall next to my ST. After years of experience, I've leared that maxim 10 is wrong for my work; however, most of the sagely advice still applies today. Brief synopsis of David Small's voodoo computing:
- You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!
4-5 years ago I tried to give away about 5 years of Creative Computing and the first 15-20 years worth of Byte (starting at #1). Couldn't find any takers, anywhere. They are now somewhere in the Mirimar landfill, sigh.
now if they'd only rerelease micro cornucopia... man, that was a great magazine.
it had Bruce Eckel before he was cool... and i quote:
"the best computer magazine ever published - they even had plans for building a robot in a flower pot!"
everything a growing boy needed! my dad took me out to Bend, OR once to see the "publishing centre". they were burning chips and looked at us weird, like: "you could have gone to rushmore or something, and instead you're watching us blow eproms in big old bean cans?". what a childhood!
is it just me, or has it been "nostalgia monday" here?
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
What are some of my fond memories?
There is another site doing the same with german Atari magazines.
Now we just need to archive the delicious images from the defunct PC Accelerator featuring Stevie Case as the naughty teacher.
I used to read STart years ago, when I still used my Atari ST. It totally rocked back then! I'll be sure to check out that link later for some good ol' nostalgia :-)
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Those of you in the UK might appreciate this nostalgia trip: Your Sinclair Rock 'n' Roll Years.
Creative Computing Vol. 9 No. 2 - February 1983
Soft SOAP.
Wow. Thats what I call forward looking. I did'nt even know XML had been defined.
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Oh man, this opens memories for me. "Creative Computing" was *great*, I spent a lot of time in the library of the university (yeah, okay, I'm old), reading every single issue.
;(
And "(More) BASIC Computer Games!" It's what got me started in programming. I even converted the "Sub War" game to run on a Univac 1100/11 - fun!
Another great mag from that time was "ZX Computing" - about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (what you 'merkins know as the 'Timex Sinclair'). Great, and I even managed to convert some of the (graphic!) games from there onto the text-only output of the Univac 1100/11.
Back then, you could read these issues from cover to cover and walk away with lots of new thoughts and ideas.
Today, you just get a bunch of adverts, and even the last bastion (in Germany), the "c't", is turning into a kind of mush. Sad, really.
Ciao,
Klaus
PS: David Ahl, my favourite editor, is now selling insurance? Oh, how the mighty have fallen
Free PC version of ChipWits at http://www.breueronline.de/klaus/chipwits/
And this is the resource for all us C= type-in freaks out there: The Compute Type-In Index.
Ahh, I can still feel my fingers tingle with exquisite pain when I read these hex listing...
No sig to see here. Move along.
I think this is the oldest extant games magazine, dating from 1980 or so.
"I realized the value of third party support when I saw that the Intel 8080 software quickly became better than minicomputer equivalents simply because so many companies were building and sharing software tools. It is for this reason that Microsoft has always made its product very open."
_ A_trend_toward_softness.php
From "A trend toward softness", a story written by Bill Gates, published in 1984.
See http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/121
Some other excellent Commodore magazine archives:
ftp://oasiscomm.net/Gazette/ - Scans of the type-in program articles from COMPUTE!'s Gazette and almost all of the companion disks
The Transactor Online Archive - Complete scans of every magazine (in progress but impressive so far)
I think the apple magazine your thinking of was "Nibble". It was an apple ][+ //e programming magazine. Lots of basic and some hex code.
I don't remeber the bar codes though, I remeber they sold the programs in the magazine on floppy if you didn't want to type them in.
Please tell I wasn't the only one that had a TRS-80 Color Computer and read Hot CoCo?
Man, I did love my 8-bit Atari's though. Something's missing from that age of computing. The wonder and excitement are gone now. Too bad.
Check out this article about a $200 million dollar megaflop computer. Cf. to the article above (in slashdot) about a 10 teraflop box from standard PC parts.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
My first computer was a 600xl with no external storage (I was a poor teenager!) I remember typing in pages of codes, playing the game for a while, and then shutting off the machine-- all of my work gone forever. And I did it again and again and again. Anyone know what happened to JD Casten? He wrote some cool stuff...
I happen to have an old Atari Age Poster on my wall. THX for the link.
For me Dr. Dobbs Journal (running light without overbyte) was a classic. I remember reading and re-reading every single article. Every month usually had a new programming language created and implemented by hobbyists. It had a spirit of excitement and adventure that I have never seen in any other magazine, and I read every and magazine I could get my hands on: Creative Computing, BYTE, REMark, Sextant (I had an article in that one), Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and many I don't remember anymore.
Windows requires an IBM PC or compatible, at least 256K of memory, disk drives, and a graphics display. More memory, a hard disk, and a mouse are optional. Windows is at its best, however, with as much memory as you can give it, a hard disk or, at the very least, a large RAM disk, and a mouse.
good to see they stuck with their original design principles.
That was the ::Cue::Cat of the 80's!
::Cue::Cat, those barcode strips would have been a great alternative to entering all those hex codes by hand. Too bad the readers sold for $100, exactly $97.19 more than most of their readers had to spend.
But contrary to the
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I'm sure they're hiding secret hexcode listings in there somewhere. I just can't find them in that hip yellow on orange layout they use.
::Cue::Cat they provided!
Maybe I need to scan them in with the free
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-- Bob
Surely the issues from 1985 and earlier should be public domain ? We just need a set of copies and a bunch of people to scan them in!
On a different note, this applies to the topic as a whole. "Creative Computing" inherited that whole DIY attitude from the hippy days and things like the "Whole Earth Catalog". That whole, go ahead, give it a try, figure out how to do things yourself schtick. The whole early PC industry was hobbiest driven. Hell, that hippy Woz was giving away schematics to build your own Apple! (Of course, back in those halcyon days, all electronic devices came with a manual and a schematic so an electronics tech could repair them.)
Things certainly have changed. There's sure a lot more money floating around now, and a lot of people who don't "get it". But we still have open source and lots of wackos hacking up electronic stuff on the web, so it's not a total loss.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It amazed me at the time. You could literally do anything you wanted to your Apple at that point because you were given all the tools to understand it.
For me, having that resource made the Apple a much more impressive machine compared to the technically superior but vastly more closed Atari machines.
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If they have all the old copies of Crash complete with the injunction-drawing 'Unclear User' spoof (which I used to own, dammit!) I might consider having a look...
You must think in Russian.
As an old Byte oclumnist, I miss it. It's but a shadow of its former self.
talks about hardware quality as well as software quality.
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"I said I hope it is a good party," said Galder, loudly.
"AT THE MOMENT IT IS," said Death levelly. "I THINK IT MIGHT GO
DOWNHILL VERY QUICKLY AT MIDNIGHT."
"Why?"
"THAT'S WHEN THEY THINK I'LL BE TAKING MY MASK OFF."
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
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Dave Ahl himself is selling a ton of old Creative Computing books here.