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Gazette Galore!: Classic Controllers and Emulation

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! Classic Controllers and Emulation. Oh, what a fool am I! Literally the day after I finish this blog, the 2600-daptors. That I ordered a few days prior arrived. These little beauties let you use original Atari sticks on modern hardware via USB (you will need a printer-style ("a-to-b") USB cable but those are like $4 on Amazon.). I had looked into the original stelladaptor. Also, avoid the Atari-like PC joysticks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can quickl...

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Gazette Galore!: November 1994 - Chute Shootout

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! November 1994 - Chute Shootout. The editorial "64/128 Overview" must've been kind of awful to write, the parent magazine COMPUTE had just been bought by Ziff-Davis who wanted it for its mailing list and shuttered it. Weirdly Gazette survives - probably having moved to disk-only gave it a respite, albeit a brief one. Also, Q-Link (I think previously called Quantum Link) was closing down - the article calls AOL (my current employer! Chute Shootout - Ligia Latina.

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Gazette Galore!: September 2015

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! December 1987 - Crossroads, Snake Pit, Root Race (Bonus Review: Animal Match). This issue, appropriately enough, has a feature about the best selling games on the Commodore- but more importantly, it features what I suspect will end up being the best game published in this magazine. and in the running for best on the system, period. To celebrate this terrific game, I think I'll switch gears and provide links to direct disk images. Crossroads - Steve Harter. You h...

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Gazette Galore!: October 1994 - Spots, One-On-One Basketball

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! October 1994 - Spots, One-On-One Basketball. The reader survey results came in:. The 8-bit Commodore market has often been called "mature." Well, it seems that those of us you use [sic]. Those computers are also mature. The average Gazette subscriber is 48 years old. There's a 94 percent chance that he's male, and he's subscribed to Gazette for about 5 years. The teenager blasting aliens with his 64 is no longer the average Commodore computer user! One-on-One Ba...

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Gazette Galore!: December 2016

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! Closure, One Year Later. It's been a year since I finished, but I have fond memories of making this blog in 2015, and thought it deserved a wrap-up article. Computers were different in the 80s. Before the internet, magazines provided about the best way to get information, reviews, and maybe most importantly, original type-in games. What a concept, right? You could even get make up your own things! One of those magazines was " COMPUTE! Typing in those programs wa...

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Gazette Galore!: Getting Started with Commodore Emulators and COMPUTE!'s Gazette

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! Getting Started with Commodore Emulators and COMPUTE! For those who wish to play along with the home version. I'm using the great emulator VICE. this is the first time I've used it on OSX, but before then I was using it for a long time on Windows. I downloaded the binary here. Opening up the dmg I couldn't just double click on "x64.app", I had to right click and select open, but after that my system knew that the ".d64" and ".t64" files belonged to it. Most emul...

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Gazette Galore!: December 1994 - Bounce

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! December 1994 - Bounce. Headline of the month: "MOLDY MOPEDS ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY", from a D'Ignazio column about lo-fi multimedia with ancient computers and VCRs and tape recorders. Bounce - Maurice Yanney. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog by Kirk Israel. Exploring a lesser-known corner of video gaming history, Gazette Galore! Reviewed all 318 type-in games featured in COMPUTE'S Gazette for Commodore computers (most notably the Commodore 64).

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Gazette Galore!: January 1989 - Disc Blitz, Bombardment, Jewel Grab

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! January 1989 - Disc Blitz, Bombardment, Jewel Grab. Editor's Notes is how 64/128 is still robust but obviously slipping, but maybe Commodore's idea that Amiga is the answer for home AND business AND school is spreading things a bit too thin. Good start to the year, game-wise! Disc Blitz - Peter Marino. This game, mostly in BASIC but with a few ML routines, is not bad! But with a cool "variations on a theme" aspect. Bombardment - Forrest Bentley. Subscribe to: Po...

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Gazette Galore!: Closure, One Year Later

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Blogging a decade of the games of COMPUTE! Closure, One Year Later. It's been a year since I finished, but I have fond memories of making this blog in 2015, and thought it deserved a wrap-up article. Computers were different in the 80s. Before the internet, magazines provided about the best way to get information, reviews, and maybe most importantly, original type-in games. What a concept, right? You could even get make up your own things! One of those magazines was " COMPUTE! Typing in those programs wa...