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#242194 15-Oct-2018 19:27
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https://archive.org/details/1986-07-computegazette/page/n0

 

 

 

Nostalgic. Used to be a must have every month back in the C64 days. 


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  #2108429 15-Oct-2018 19:39
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Yep, I remember these. There were also the old Usborne books (scroll down) - I think I borrowed every single one that the library had laughing 




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  #2108485 15-Oct-2018 20:59
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C64 my first computer.  I never saw that magazine though.


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You need to watch some of the retro computer youtube vids. The 8-bit guy has some good ones. 




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  #2108573 16-Oct-2018 03:29
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I have years worth of them still.

 

 


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  #2108575 16-Oct-2018 04:26
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mattwnz:

You need to watch some of the retro computer youtube vids. The 8-bit guy has some good ones. 



His stuff is pretty awesome, esp the details




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  #2108591 16-Oct-2018 06:58
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The Atara 800XL was far superior to the C64 :)   the designer went onto the Amiga team.


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  #2108601 16-Oct-2018 07:24
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Behodar:

 

Yep, I remember these. There were also the old Usborne books (scroll down) - I think I borrowed every single one that the library had laughing 

 

 

Those books were very cool :D I had a large number of them across all sorts of subjects.





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  #2108613 16-Oct-2018 08:16
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So cool, I remember that machine code for beginners haha.

 

Remember trying to code games so the tv scan rate matched the screen draw rate... so onscreen movement was smooth. 


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  #2108620 16-Oct-2018 08:24
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surfisup1000:

 

Remember trying to code games so the tv scan rate matched the screen draw rate... so onscreen movement was smooth. 

 

 

Ahh yes, the good old SYS "OS_Byte", 19 to wait for VSync on an Acorn :)

 

No idea how to do it on a C64.


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  #2108621 16-Oct-2018 08:35
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My favourite part of old computer magazines is the exceptionally good quality images they had on the cover, which didn't represent the quality of the graphics on the computer AT ALL.  Same with game boxes through the ages until recent years when graphics caught up with imagination.  

 

I had a bunch of Amiga magazines but I suppose my parents threw them out by now.  One of my prized possessions is an original marketing booklet for the Apple Lisa.  


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  #2108631 16-Oct-2018 09:03
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I had a few banana boxes full of Amiga magazines recently....  bought back a lot of memories :) Moved them along as was no way I was going to get through them all :-p

 

 





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