Info was not only dedicated to Commodore computers but also produced on them. The Commodore 64 early on and later on, the Amiga. For some reason this issue doesn't have a cover date but it is probably from some time in late 1984 or early 1985. It includes:
Departments
- Gallery - Color screen shots and brief descriptions of recent games, including Pole Position, Pitstop II, On-Court Tennis, International Soccer, Gumball, The Castles of Doctor Creep, The Scrolls of Abadon, Gridtrap, Pathwords, Monty Plays Scrabble, Trivia Fever, Murder by the Dozen, and more.
- Editor's Page - About Info's special product round-up issues as well as a look at what is going on in other Commodore magazines.
- Reader Mail - Reader comments about the Indus GT disk drive and copy protection.
Table of Contents from Issue Number 6 of Info
Reviews
- The Word Processor - The King James Bible on disk (8 disk to be exact).
- Bearcat Scanner - A review of the Compuscan 2100.
- Comal 2.01 - An implementation of the Comal programming language for the Commodore 64.
Features
- Is There a Hard Drive in Your Future? - A look at hard drives, how they work, and what they are good for.
- Let Your Fingers do the Walking - A guide to telecomputing, including some ARPANET history, they types of commercial services available, and the things that you can do on them.
- Introduction to Assembly Language - Learn to program using assembly language on your Commodore 64.
- Whither CP/M? - Commodore promised a CP/M cartridge for the Commodore 64 when it was released but took a long time to deliver. By the time it was released (along with the Commodore 128 with its CP/M mode), CP/M was really pretty much dead as an OS as far as any new development was concerned.
Back cover of Issue Number 6 of Info
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