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Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

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104 points dbelson | 1 comments | 13 Apr 25 11:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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le-mark ◴[13 Apr 25 15:00 UTC] No.43673280[source]▶
Iirc the “gazette” version of Compute! Was focused on Commodore machines, whereas Compute was a polyglot of several popular US machines. Theses magazines were a lifeline to a lot of us in the 80’s pre internet. It reminds me how amazing this age is, with regard to freely available information.
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1. massysett ◴[13 Apr 25 17:14 UTC] No.43674277[source]▶
Yes, Gazette was published as a standalone magazine, as COMPUTE’s Gazette. Later, it was published as a supplement to COMPUTE, the main COMPUTE had some Gazette pages printed in the back or something.

I subscribed for at least a few years. I did the type-in programs. I think I got the BASIC ones to work but I never got one of the assembly language ones working. Understandably topping them in did not forgive errors, though each line of assembly came with a checksum, this didn’t save me.

And typing them was mind-numbing besides.