Source: RUN: The Home User’s Guide to Commodore Computing – April 1985
RUN was one of the most popular and longest lasting Commodore 8-bit magazines in the U.S. For most of its life it covered the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 but it also covered the VIC-20 in its earlier days. The April 1985 issue includes:
Features
- Commodore Sundial – Learn how to make a sundial with the aid of your Commodore computer.
- Charting Your Future – Biorhythms can tell you a lot about your state of being. This program lets you chart them.
- Celestial Swami – Did you know that your C-64 can double as a fortune teller?
- The Plus/4’s File Manager – A review of the Plus/4’s built-in database program.
- Video Jukebox – Relax with this program of kaleidoscopic color and sound patterns for your C-64.
- Picking the Right Sounds – Tune your guitar with this program.
- Teacher’s Pet – This educational program generates worksheets to help students practice basic arithmetic skills.
- Easy Assembly – Here’s your chance to begin learning assembly language; the first installment of a new series.
- Let It Scroll! – Here’s an easy-to-use subroutine that lets you scroll messages across your screen.
- Programming Briefs – A list of disk commands for easy reference.
- The Number Puzzle – It looks easy, but don’t be so easily fooled.
- A First Lesson in Programming for Kids – the Basic Print and Goto statements can make a child’s introduction to programming easy and enjoyable.
- Simon’s Basic – A hard look at a version of Basic that adds 100 commands to your C-64 system.
- Making Boxes – Add a little punch to your programs – this short subroutine lets you box in your screen messages and menus with ease.
- Sound Sampler – Seventeen amusing, captivating and out-of-this-world sounds that you can add to your own programs.
- Graph Maker 64 – Create, save and print colorful vertical bar graphs for use in your programs.
- A User’s Castle – A blueprint for building your own convenient computer sanctuary.
- Gateway to the World – This continuing series examines how to connect your Commodore to the outside world and gives you a small project for controlling the user port.
- Menu, Please – Here are routines that will add easy menu-handling to your Basic programs.
Departments
- RUNning Ruminations
- Magic – Hints and tricks that will let you perform computing wizardry.
- Software Gallery
- Gyruss
- NATO Commander
- Financial Cookbook
- Exodus: Ultima III
- Blue Moon
- Promal
- Computer Tutor – Educational software reviewed
- Coming Attractions
- Commodore Clinic – A questions-and-answers column to help your ailing computer.
- Book Gallery
- New Products RUNdown
- Mail RUN
- How to Type In Listings
- RUN Amok
…and more!
