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Compute Magazine
''Compute!'' (), often stylized as ''COMPUTE!'', was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's ''PET Gazette'', one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET computer. In its 1980s heyday ''Compute!'' covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. The most successful of these was '' Compute!'s Gazette'', which catered to VIC-20 and Commodore 64 computer users. History ''Compute!''s original goal was to write about and publish programs for all of the computers that used some version of the MOS Technology 6502 CPU. It started out in 1979 with the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Atari 400/800, Apple II+, and some 6502-based computers one could build from kits, such as the Rockwell AIM 65, the KIM-1 by MOS Technology, and others from companies such as Ohio Scientific. Coverage of the kit computers and the Commodore PET were eventually dropped. The plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laser Chess
Laser Chess is a two-player, strategy video game from 1987, modeled as a board game with chess-like pieces, most of which have mirrored surfaces, and one of which is a laser cannon. ''Laser Chess'' first appeared in ''Compute!'s Atari ST Disk & Magazine'' in 1987, written in Modula-2, winning the $5,000 first prize in a programming competition held by the magazine. Ports of the game written in BASIC and machine language were published in the June 1987 issue of ''Compute!'' for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit family as type-in programs. ''Laser Chess'' has been re-implemented many times over the years, including a variant ''Advanced Laser Chess'' with a larger board and additional pieces, or the new variant "LASER CHESS: Deflection" bringing a level editor, more and more pieces like portals available on Steam. Gameplay Players take alternate turns taking two actions with their pieces. An action consists of moving a piece vertically or laterally, rotating a piec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |