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

(www.computesgazette.com)
104 points dbelson | 2 comments | 13 Apr 25 11:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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robterrell ◴[13 Apr 25 15:14 UTC] No.43673376[source]▶
I worked for Compute! magazine when I was in high school (an excellent job, porting games for one PC to another) and so maybe it's just a me thing, but it seems weird to name this "Compute's Gazette" when there's no connection to the original magazine, besides fandom.
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1. e808 ◴[13 Apr 25 23:51 UTC] No.43676760[source]▶
Compute! had a fork? of a magazine specifically for Commodore Computers called 'Compute! Gazette' https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette I spent many of days in my youth typing in the pages of code they included at the end of every issue.
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2. robterrell ◴[14 Apr 25 00:20 UTC] No.43676915[source]▶
Yeah, I get that this is a re-creation of an existing title focused on C64 (also published out of the same office as the one I worked in). What's odd to me is that there's no connection to the original magazine -- no IP rights acquired, none of the old writers or editors involved, just name-squatting on something people feel nostalgia for. But maybe it'll be great.