Compute! (August 1981)

Compute! (August 1981)

If you happened to be a computer owner in 1981 then Compute! would have definitely been a magazine that you would have wanted to subscribe to. The magazine lasted for more than a decade and in these early days it was exclusively covering 8-bit computers based on the 6502 processor. There were more of these than you might think. The August 1981 issue includes:

• The Editor's Notes
• Ask The Readers
• Computers And Society: Some Speculations On The Well-Played Game, Part II
• The Beginner's Page
• Basically Useful Basic: Checking Randomness Of Random Number Generators
• Trenton: The Original Computer Festival
• Basic Oneliners: Minimize Code And Maximize Speed
• Computer Assisted Instruction - Worth The Effort?
• Wolves, Caribou, And Other Problems
• Add A Programmable Sound Generator
• The Carry Bit - What It Is And How It Works
• The Floating-Point Division Routine
• Practical Aspects Of Assembly Language: Part II


• The Apple Gazette
• Apple Disk Motor Control
• Interfacing The Apple To 6500 Family Peripherals
• A Cassette Tape Monitor For The Apple
• Diskette Sector Space In A Greeting Program


• The Atari Gazette
• Restoring And Updating Data On The Atari
• Easy Reading Of The Atari Joystick
• Poem Writer
• Supercube Update
• Atari Sound Utility
• Blockade For The Atari
• Define A Line On The Atari


• The OSI Gazette
• The OSI RS232 Port And The High Speed Printer Interface


• The Pet Gazette
• The CBM "Fat 40" - Boon Or Bane?
• Digital Arrayment
• Keyword
• CBM/PET Loading, Chaining And Overlaying
• Converting Pet Basic Programs To ASCII Files


• The Single Board Computer Gazette
• The Single Board 6502
• Nuts And Volts: Build Your Own Controllers Part II


• New Products
• Advertiser's Index

...and more!