Though I tended to buy Commodore specific magazines back in the 80s, Compute! was certainly the best multi-format computer magazine of the time. It really had a huge amount of content for your $3 or $4. The April 1986 issue includes:
Features
- New Technologies: The Converging Digital Universe
- A Turning Point for Atari? Report from the Winter Consumer Electronics Show
Reviews
- Silent Service
- DeluxePaint for Amiga
- S'More for Commodore 64
- Heart of Africa
- Hacker
- MasterType's Writer for Apple
Columns and Departments
- The Editor's Notes
- Reader's Feedback
- HOTWARE
- The World Inside the Computer: The Robot Inside You
- Computers and Society: Humanizing the User Interface, Part 2
- The Beginner's Page: More String-Slicing
- Telecomputing Today: An April Trade Show Report
- Programming the TI: Creating Rhythms
The Journal
- Loading and Linking Commodore Programs, Part 2
- Adding System Power to ST BASIC, Part 1
- Mousify Your Applesoft Programs, Part 2
- IBM Variable Snapshot
- Atari Textdump
- AmigaDOS Batch Files
- Apple Disk Duper
- Smooth-Scrolling Billboards for IBM
- Commodore 64 Screen Genie
- Screen Saver 64
- Atari FontMaker
- Hi-Res Graphics Aid Routines
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