LP Construction Set: Let's "Play" COMPUTE!'s Gazette!

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BiggerJ: May 21, 2007; What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

FredMSloniker posted:

Aaaand the Internet Archive just went down for maintenance. I'll take your word for it, but I was right about it appearing in Compute!, at least:

(Source: Wikipedia)

It's back up, and he was right about the 1988 Special Issue. And to provide content, a megapost of book series mentioned so far:

Compute! Magazine - Archive.org's archives of Computer! Gazette's parent magazine. Its type-ins were dropped in the May 1988 issue (Issue 096).

Compute's books (holy poo poo this list got huge):

(Notes: VICE also emulates the earlier VIC and later C128. 'alt' indicates an alternate download. If you a program from a Compute book, list both the book and the originating issue, which should be listed on one of the first few pages of the book.)

Commodore Collection Volume One (alt) (for VIC and C64 - all programs first appeared in this book and may not have appeared in Computer or Compute Gazette)
Commodore Collection Volume One (alt)
Commodore 64 and 128 Collection (all programs are for C64 and C128-in-C64-mode)

First Book of VIC Games
Second Book of VIC Games (alt)

VIC Games for Kids (alt)

First Book of VIC (alt)
Second Book of VIC
Third Book of VIC (alt)

First Book of C64 Games (alt, alt 2)
Second Book of C64 Games (alt)
Third Book of C64 Games

Creating Arcade Games on the Commodore 64 (alt) (includes six games)

C64 Games for Kids (alt)

First Book of C64 (alt) (alt 2)
Second Book of C64 (alt)
Third Book of C64 (alt)

First Book of C128
Second Book of C128

There's more books by other people, including books with more type-ins, in this collection.

Official PDFs of British publisher Usborne's computer books - Mystery of Silver Mountain and Island of Secrets were essentially like Usborne's story-based puzzle books except the puzzle existed partly in the book and partly in the computer game. As for their other books, the mentioned Usborne Guide to Better Basic is missing but you can get it from here. (Before doing type-ins from a book, make sure your emulated computer of choice is mentioned on the cover. When actually doing one, write down which lines have alternate versions for that computer so you don't forget.)

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BiggerJ: May 21, 2007; What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

ManxomeBromide posted:

DISK DOWNLOAD

I've collected all my stuff for this thread in a disk image, mb_gazette.d64. It includes:

Astro-PANIC! has been packaged so that you can run it with RUN instead of SYS 49152.

Verbatim adds a missing down-arrow in a PRINT statement that messed up the timer display.

Atom Shoot has the errata from a later issue incorporated, and also fixes a mistake they made on shutdown where they let some of the Plus/4 code slip into the C64 version.

Any chance of you releasing your own errata lines?

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