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Delving into Macintosh software from “<a href="https://krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/483526.html">MacWrite</a>/MacPaint” to “<a
Delving into Macintosh software from “MacWrite/MacPaint” to “QuickTime/CD-ROM” in recent months has depended on the Snow emulator...
Profiles December 1986/January 1987
A buzzword in computing moved towards "IBM compatibles" (even ahead of Microsoft revising Windows) in the feature story for this issue. (There were comments in the article about how Kaypro's cheaper CP/M machines could at least contribute to the process.) The "Life at 300 Baud" column talked up a BBS claiming "to have over 3,000 registered users" as compared to the usual "500 to 100"; you'd face a lot of busy signals trying to log on to "Invention Factory" (unless you paid "$100 a year" for "a special phone number that will let you bypass the 'modem hordes'"), but the "over 2,000 public domain programs" on it seemed worth the effort and/or expense.
STart Winter 1986
The buyer's guide in this issue talked about how far the Atari ST had come in a year, although the author of one earlier word processor for it provided an article insisting his program was still the best word processor for the computer. There was an article about the step-by-step creation of computer art and an interview with Jack Tramiel, who would "like, if I can, to be my myself, to have the market all to myself. I know that's not possible, but it would be nice." When asked about his hopes in April of 1985 to have sold "three to five million computers" in 1986, he responded that "the users of 8-bit machines are trying to figure out what is the next generation," and once that had happened in 1987, twenty million computers would be replaced.
Compute's Gazette December 1986
In addition to its feature article on "simulations" (from flight to war to sports), this issue had a more general article on "The 64 As A Game Machine," concluding that even the Commodore Amiga hadn't knocked the earlier computer loose from its height of popularity as "the IBM of home computing; no one thinks you're dumb if you buy it." Robert C. Lock's editorial noted that Atari's filings in advance to going public stated "150,000 Atari systems" had been sold, less than everyone (including him) had supposed.
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ANALOG Computing December 1986
Along with gift guides for the 8-bit Atari computers and the ST, this issue's editorial looked ahead to an Atari stock offering and the "Status report" looked ahead to an "80-column box" to be attached to older Atari computers and some form of ST successor, whether it would be the "EST" or the previously mentioned TT.
When I saw the next-episode preview for “The Howling Man” I did wonder if The Twilight Zone was getting around to “an old-
When I saw the next-episode preview for “The Howling Man” I did wonder if The Twilight Zone was getting around to “an old-fashioned scary story,” regardless of the differing amounts of time between the the horror films of the early sound movie era and The Twilight Zone’s then-contemporary fantasies and between the TV show and today...
Antic December 1986
The shoppers guide in this issue started with Atari's 8-bit and ST computers and worked its way through hardware to games and other software. (Near the back of the magazine, a mail-order company was still selling the Atari 800XL for $79.99 along with newer machines.)
A+ December 1986
Profiles will have to wait for a bit longer. As for A+, while AppleWorks had become a standard (without, some people complained and might still complain, Apple doing much to promote it), an assortment of other productivity programs did get examined in this issue. The Apple IIgs was compared to "the competition" (outside and inside Apple), with Frederic E. Davis's editorial mentioning it might "fatally wound Commodore's Amiga" but would merely "hurt" the Atari ST, even if the actual article making the comparisons supposed the IIgs was "neither a breakthrough product nor even in all ways the best of the current state of the art."
On noticing a “book-in-a-box” marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts I at least got to wondering about it. I managed t
On noticing a “book-in-a-box” marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts I at least got to wondering about it...
PCM December 1986
The Tandy 1000EX (on sale inside this issue in a Radio Shack ad bundling the computer and a monitor for $799) hits the slopes on this cover. (After scanning it, I looked at the magazine again and was left with the impression the illustration was askew on the printed cover, too...) Lonnie Falk's editorial asked "Is IBM Too Smart For Their Own Good?" in response to rumours the company was about to bring out some new PCs with custom silicon making them "unclonable"; he was confident the "standard" for a MS-DOS computer had already escaped IBM's control via the efforts of Tandy and others. A "Star Trek" adventure for the Model 100 was included this month (not quite explaining it had first been written for the original TRS-80). I once decided I would peck the adventure into my family's Model 100, eventually getting it debugged to the point of playing it, but possibly not to the point of winning it...
Soft Sector December 1986
The sheer number of companies now selling "PC compatibles" was indicated on the cover of this issue, which pivoted away from Sanyo machines. (Two computers from Victor made the top of the cover.) Lonnie Falk returned to provide the editorial, where he complained that Sanyo had decided to "clean up its sales act" a year and a half before by ordering Soft Sector to stop accepting advertising for mail-order sales for their computers, but not bothered to provide its own ads in response. He contrasted how the company hadn't provided a fully equipped MBC-990 for evaluation to Tandy's ample bequests of hardware. As for whether this shift meant success for the magazine, though, I don't know, as this is the last issue available on the Internet Archive...
Info November/December 1986
Amiga graphics programs took up the cover of this issue, with one promising to bring "the real world into your computer" in the upper left corner. (Inside, Digi-View and an older program digitizing video camera input on the Commodore 64 were illustrated photographing a model robot from the Armored Trooper VOTOMS anime.) The news section looked at the Apple IIgs and, comparing its specifications to the rumours flying just beforehand, judged it "no contender," mentioning that "even Apple management says this machine is for 'enthusiasts' (translate: Hackers) only." Elsewhere in the magazine, a long-promised box to let the Commodore 64 run Apple II software was examined at last; the review concluded that it was probably more cost-effective to acquire a Laser 128 Apple clone, which would also run newer software, but the "Spartan" was "fun to play with."
The Transactor November 1986
The chips to be programmed in this issue included CPUs (accessing the Commodore 128's Z80 from its more familiar 6502-derived 8500) and custom Commodore silicon (such as the chip that drove the Commodore 128's 80-column display). The magazine also visited Expo 86 in Vancouver, where IBM drove interactive displays with PC/AT machines but Commodore had an Amiga-powered theatre.
Compute's Gazette November 1986
"The evolution of program design," discussed in the lead article of this issue, considered how assembly language had gone from vital when working with 1K of memory to hard to work with when working with 128K, thus leading to the use of comparatively wasteful high-level languages; it contemplated lone programmers being replaced by teams. You could delve into the evolution of program design yourself by following up on the second article and looking into BASIC compilers.
After a week’s break involving a visit from family I got back to my Twilight Zone collection. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview
After a week’s break involving a visit from family I got back to my Twilight Zone collection. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview for “A Thing About Machines” had stuck in my memory during that extended time...
