Compute!, at least in its earlier days, exclusively covered computers based on the 6502 CPU. In early 1982 these included the Commodore PET, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, and others. The January 1982 issue includes:
Columns
- The Editor's Notes - Atari goes after creators of Atari game clones.
- Ask The Readers - Questions asked and answerd about chaining programs in BASIC on Commodore computers, the future of the 6502, software protection, accessing all 48K of RAM on the Atari, and more.
- Computers And Society - An article on the Turing test and measuring artificial intelligence.
Applications
- INVEST - A BASIC type-in program for helping you to calculate various things with regards to realestate investing.
- Developing A Business Algorithm - Creating a program to perform various business calculations including things like interest, lease calculations, taxes, and more.
- Anti-Hesitation Programming: A Tutorial on Arrays - Getting around slowness when using arrays in Microsoft BASIC.
Education
- Friends Of The Turtle - A new society with the goal of promoting turtle graphics with languages such as Atari PILOT, TI LOGO, and Apple LOGO.
- Learning With Computers - A look at how computers might change schools in the future.
The Apple Gazette
- Apple Addresses - Hexadecimal and decimal addressing on the Apple II.
- More Apple Hi-Res Shape Writer - A type-in program for creating hi-res shapes on the Apple II.
- Lower Case With Unmodified Apple - A program that allow you to use lower case letters without hardware modification on the Apple II.
The Atari Gazette
- Cryptogram - A type-in game for Atari 8-bit computers in which you mus decipher the code.
- SuperFont - A type-in program for the Atari that allows you to create your own fonts.
- Word Search - A type-in program for the Atari that allows you to create word search games.
The OSI Gazette
- Part I: A Small Operating System: OS65D The Disk Routines - Part one of a two part series on using a disk drive with the OSI.
The PET Gazette
- A Yuletide Tale - A Christmas Carol starring the PET.
- Renumbering An Appended Routine Only - A guide to appending one program to another on the PET.
- BRANCH NEVER And QUIF Assembling On SuperPET - Assembly language programming on the SuperPET (which uses a 6809 CPU).
- PET Repairs For The Amateur - A guide to various PET problems that are mostly the result of loose connections.
- Realtime Clock On Your PET Screen - A type-in real-time clock routine for the PET.
VIC-20 Update
- TINYMON1: A Simple Monitor For The VIC - A type-in machine language monitor for the VIC-20.
- VIC Color Tips - A tutorial for using color in your programs for the VIC-20.
- VIC Memory Map Above Page Zero - A list of memory locations and their functions on the VIC-20.
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