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The Color Computer Magazine April 1984

"Color Life" amounted to a machine-language version of John Conway's classic "cellular automaton" Game of Life, with Dennis Kitsz explaining this helped introduce "indirect addressing." You needed an editor/assembler program to get the game running; Kitsz invited you to add features to the program should you want more than "a demonstration of programming concepts."

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The Color Computer Magazine October 1984

Richard Ramella hinted and Dennis Kitsz was pretty clear that this was the final issue of The Color Computer Magazine (which did manage to include "the last four parts" of Jake Commander's disassembly of the computer's ROM). There was a comment in an issue of The Rainbow that subscriptions to this magazine were transferred to Creative Computing, and the first issue of the run of that magazine that showed up in my family's house was November 1984. (If we were offered the chance to transfer our subscription again to one of Ziff-Davis's remaining computer magazines fourteen issues later, we didn't take it.)

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The Color Computer Magazine August 1984

"Reviews" pretty much made up this entire issue, squeezing out the regular columns. They led off with educational software, moved on to "home and business management," put games around the middle (with thumbnail screenshots in what colours the "CoCo" could manage), and closed with utility programs and hardware.

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The Color Computer Magazine May 1984

While Radio Shack did sell a "Speech/Sound Cartridge," the cover illustration of this issue happened to be connected to articles about different programming languages for the Color Computer. One review looked at Basic09, an add-on to OS-9 that was more powerful and structured than the standard BASIC in the "CoCo," if somewhat less graphical and more difficult for the reviewer to get running.

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