Compute! (April 1986)

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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