Didn't know that spreadsheet software is that diverse

"Fore the serious user of the Apple II" was the slogan of Computist. It did tend to emphasize technical articles and was particularly focused on circumventing disk based copy protection that

Whereas computer games mostly stayed around the same price point throughout the 8-bit era, application software varied much more. For instance, this word processor, The Write Stuff, for the Apple II is

This is my Apple Computer Collection from a few years ago. From Apple II up to an iMac. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Hardcore Computist was a long running technically oriented Apple II magazine. It was somewhat controversial because it was mostly dedicated to circumventing copy protection. Issue number 16 from 1985 includes

I'm sure "the Graphic Solution" sounded like an original enough name at the time but it seems pretty generic and non-specific by today's standards. It turns out this was software for creating

In the 1980s, the various 8-bit computers available each had their own advantages and disadvantages. The Apple II was on the expensive side but one advantage it had was that it was easily expandable. Like

Compute!'s main publication was a multi-format magazine that covered a number of computers. However, Compute! also published several platform specific magazines along the way though only Compute!'s Gazette

Source: Computist was always primarily an Apple II oriented magazine but later in life it did cover other machines such as the PC (DOS) and Macintosh to a lesser extent. I large portion of the content

Source: Computist (originally titled Hardcore Computing) was an interesting magazine in that its primary focus was on defeating copy protection on and otherwise hacking Apple II software. The December

Source: Hardcore Computist was originally titled Hardcore Computing. It was briefly split into two separate publications: Core and Hardcore Computist. Core only lasted three issues and then was folded