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Issues.txt by Celt 10 November 1999 This file contains a listing of the issues I have made available on ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/computist and gives a listing of the major articles in each issue as well as anything else I felt like including. This file will be updated each time I upload new issues and the changes will include the aforementioned issues. Issue 24 Title: Hardcore COMPUTIST Articles: Softkey: Electronic Arts software. This is an update to an article published in Hardcore COMPUTIST #13 and outlines deprotection techniques for Seven Cities of Gold, Archon II: Adept, and Adventure Construction Set. Softkey: Grolier Software. Softkeys for the Knowledge Explorer series. This includes The Isle of Mem (both sides), Wonderquest, Informaster and any other Pascal-based Grolier titles. Softkey: Xyphus. Deprotection technique for Penguin Software's Ultima-clone. Softkey: F-15 Strike Eagle. Deprotection technique for MicroProse's flight-sim. Softkey: Imagic's Injured Engine. Article: Essential Data Duplicator (EDD) copy parms: "The latest list of parameters for EDD III, as provided ... by Utilico Microware. Check this list for all your favorite programs." Article: Direct Sector Access from DOS: "Add two new useful commands for reading and writing sectors directly to and from the disk..." Other softkeys: Mr Robot and His Robot Factory (Datamost) Applecillin II (XPS) Alphabet Zoo (Spinnaker) Fathoms 40 (Datasoft) Story Maker (Sierra On-Line) Early Games Matchmaker (Counterpoint) Robots of Dawn (Epyx) Issue 25 Title: Hardcore COMPUTIST Articles: Softkey: DB Master 4.2 and BusinessWriter. Deprotect these Stoneware titles using Super IOB Softkey: Another DB Master 4+ Deprotection Softkey: Barron's Computer SAT. Use Super IOB to deprotect this SAT Study Guide Softkey: Take 1. Baudeville's graphics program deprotected. Softkey: BankStreet Speller. Use this spell-checker's own built-in copy routine to back it up. Softkey: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Broderbund's classic edu-game. Softkey: BankStreet Writer 128k (//e & //c). Softkey: Word Challenge. Deprotection technique for Hayden's vocab package Article: Adding "If Then Else" to Applesoft Article: DOS to ProDOS and Back. "This single drive solution to inter-DOS file transfer uses a specially created diskette that contains directories for both DOSes." Other Softkeys: Spy's Demise (Penguin) Mind Prober (Human Edge) BC's Quest for Tires (Sierra On-Line) Early Games (DLM) Homeward Speller (Sierra On-Line) Issue 28 Title: COMPUTIST (Note: all issues from this point on are titled COMPUTIST. The 'Hardcore' moniker had been dropped because some kid's mom was trashing the magazine before he ever got it, thinking it was porn because of the 'Hardcore' in the title). Feature Softkeys: Ultima IV Robot Odyssey Rendezvous Word Attack Hacker Disk Director Lode Runner MIDI/4 Features: Fingerprints Plus: A Review Beneath Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, part 2 Capturing the Hidden Archon Editor Other Softkeys: Algebra Series (Edu-Ware) Time is Money (Turning Point) Pitstop II (Epyx) Apventure to Atlantis (Synergistic) Of Note: Be sure to check out the obituary for Creative Computing on page 30. Issue 32 5th Anniversary Issue Feature Softkeys: Cubit Bridge Moebius Early Games Hartley Software Baudeville Software Music Construction Set Features: Using Data Disks with Microzines Super IOB v1.5 - a reprint Other Softkeys: Print Shop Companion (Broderbund) Kracking Vol II (Pirate's Harbor) Moebius (Origin Systems) Mouse Budget, Mouse Word & Mouse Desk (International Solutions) Adventure Construction Set (Electronic Arts) Of Note: The 5th Anniversary editorial gives a good look into COMPUTIST's past. Also, check out the publisher of 'Bridge' on page 24... Couldn't be... could it? Issue 33 Looking for Page 1/2? Apparently the leaf containing pages 1 and 2 (and 31 and 32) didn't get stapled into this issue. These are normally the pages containing the advertisements and are curiously absent from this one. Whether it's just mine or all of them went out with that leaf missing, I'll probably never know. Maybe the advertisers didn't pay for their ads by the deadline. Who knows? Feature Softkeys: Word Juggler Sundog v2.0 Summer Games II Thief Instant Pascal Epyx Software Tink! Tonk! Chipwits Features: The Mapping of Ultima IV How to be the Sound Master Other Softkeys: Graphic Adventure #1 (Adventure International) Sensible Grammar & Extended Bookends (Sensible Software) Chipwits (Brainpower) Hardball (Accolade) King's Quest II (Sierra On-Line) The World's Greatest Baseball Game (Epyx) Issue 34 August 1986 Ok, I stopped cleaning up the 'bleed-through' with this issue. It didn't reduce the file-size noticeably and actually degraded readability, especially of text printed in lighter typeface (such as assembly listings, BASIC listings, and hexdumps). Feature Softkeys: Crisis Mountain Terrapin Logo Apple Logo II Fishies SpellWorks Gumball Conan Koronis Rift Features: Infocom Revealed - an indepth look at Infocom's text encoding techniques More ROM Running - an indepth look at ROM and RAM cards Other Softkeys: Rescue at Rigel (Epyx) Crazey Mazey (Datamost) Conan (Datasoft) Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder (Telarium) Koronis Rift (Epyx) Issue 35 September 1986 Feature Softkeys: Hi-Res Cribbage Olympic Decathalon F-15 Strike Eagle (revisited) Masquerade (and other Dav Holle Productions) The Hobbit Pooyan The Perfect Score The Money Manager Features: Installing a CPS Clock Driver - a *working* ProDOS Driver for the Mountain Computer CPS clock (the shipping driver never worked with ProDOS) Putting a New F8 on Your Language Card - allows you to install a new F8 EPROM without modifying your motherboard The Senior PROM - A Review The Sword of Kadash - An Advanced Playing Tip (APT) Other Softkeys: Pooyan (Datasoft) The Perfect Score (Mindscape) Alice in Wonderland (Windham Classics) The Money Manager (Sterling Swift) Good Thinking (Hoffman Educational) Rescue Raiders (Sir Tech) A word on the Senior PROM: This is the most useful piece of hardware EVER constructed for ANY platform, IMHO... Best $65.00 I ever spent. I managed to rescue mine before my parents managed to trash my beloved Apple (and most of my extensive software collection in the process). Unfortunately, one of the pins snapped off the breadboard at some point, so until I can repair it, it's useless. But even in it's unusable state, it's still more productive than anything that came out of Redmond... but enough preaching... Issue 36 October 1986 Feature Softkeys: Flight Simulator II v1.05 AutoDuel Critical Reading Troll's Tale Robot War General Manager Plasmania Telarium Software Features: The Bard's Dressing Room: a character editor The Bus Monitor - add a 'front panel' to your Apple to monitor what's really going on inside your computer ScreenWriter Meets Flashcard - use your Flashcard RAM disk with this word processor MousePaint for non-Apples - use this painting program with your Franklin Ace, Laser, or other Apple II-compatible Advanced Playing Tips for Championship Lode Runner Issue 37 November 1986 Feature Softkeys: Under Fire Pegasus ][ Alter Ego Dark Crystal Magic Slate Quicken Story Tree Rendezvous Take 1 (revisited) Features: Playing Karateka on a //c Track Finder - a utility that displays which track the drive head is currently located over Sylk to Dif - a converter program that allows Multiplan to read Dif-formatted spreadsheet files Breaking In: Deprotection Tips for Beginners Copy ][+ 6.0: A Review The DOS Alterer - modifies DOS to allow reading of multiple formats of protected disks Flight Simulator II v1.05 Source Code Listings (continued from issue 36) Modifying ProDOS to run on an unehanced //e Other Softkeys: Assembly Language Tutor (Prentice Hall) Avalon Hill games Issue 38 December 1986 Note: Pages 31/32 are missing from this issue. Don't worry, it was nothing but ads. Apparently, there was something I wanted to order out of the back of this one and cut the ad out, instead of photocopying it. Oh well... Feature Softkeys: Cyclod Alternate Reality: The City Boulder Dash I & II The Other Side Gato v1.3 Wilderness Golf's Best Hard Hat Mack (updated) Features: Building a switchable Enhanced/Unenhanced //e Looking into Flight Simulator's DOS Appavarex - how an Applesoft program's text is stored in memory and a program that documents in what lines of a program variables are used Installing a RAM disk into DOS 3.3 Other Softkeys: F-15 Strike Eagle (MicroProse) Championship Lode Runner (Broderbund) I, Damiano (Bantam) Quicken (Intuit) Issue 39 January 1987 Note: Pages 31/32 are missing from this issue also, and for the same reason as they were missing from issue 38. And the graphic on page 19 is supposed to be that way. Yes, really. Feature Softkeys: MIDI/8 Plus Homeword v2.1 Amazon Adventure Echo Plus The Luscher Profile A.E. Bridge Baron Borrowed Time Features: Electronic Disk Drive Swapper - boot from drive 2 and more with this hardware project Abusing the Epilogues - a discussion of a copy-protection method that uses altered track epilogues Print Shop Companion's Driver Game - there's a secret game in this popular title. Here's how to get to it Keyboard Repair using a TI/99 keyboard Fixing the Applesoft Sampler Disk to run on a //c Hints for Carmen Sandiego Other Softkeys: Discovery! M-ss-ng L-nk series Donald Duck's Playground Mastering the SAT Copy ][ Plus 4.4C Master of the Lamps One on One Great American Cross Country Road Race Computer Preparation for the SAT Castle Wolfenstein SkyFox Silent Service Swashbuckler Randamn Issue 40 February 1987 Note: Pages 31/32 are gone from this one as well, probably for the same reasons as before. Feature Softkeys: Adventure Writer Mychess II Raster Blaster Cranston Manor Ghostbusters E-Z Learner American Challenge Crime Wave Features: The Disk Space You Didn't Know You Had Taking the Wiz out of Wizardry Adding a Printer Card driver to Newsroom The Games of 1986 in review, part 1 Issue 41 March 1987 Feature Softkeys: The Periodic Table Gemstone Warrior Inferno Frogger Story Maker Adventure Writer Mummy's Curse Features: A Two-Drive Patch for Winter Games The Games of 1986 in Review (Part I) Customizing the Speed of a DuoDisk Drive Roll the Presses Part II: PrintShop Printer Drivers Issue 42 April 1987 Feature Softkeys: Light Simulator Beach-Head Racter Winnie the Pooh Wizardry 1 & 2 Lucifer's Realm The PFS Series Features: The Games of 1986 in Review (Part II) AutoDuel character Editor Wizard's Crown Editor Questron Mapper APT's for Ultima IV Other Softkeys: Monty Plays Scrabble (Ritam) Infocom Stuff (Infocom) Kabul Spy (?) Prisoner II (?) Dollars and Sense (Monogram) Strip Poker (Artworx) Coveted Mirror (Penguin) Wizard's Crown (SSI) The Swordthrust Series (Electronic Arts) Axis Assassin (Electronic Arts) Manuscript Manager (Pergamon Press) The Crown of Arthain (MicroLab) Address Book (Muse) Decimals 3.0 (Eduware) Dragonfire (Level 10) Notes: A sense of humor is required for the Light Simulator softkey. I'll leave it at that. Issue 43 May 1987 Feature Softkeys: Graphics Expander Information Master Certificate Maker Elite Catalyst 2.0/3.0 Temple of Apshai Spell It Features: How to Write-Protect Your Slot Zero Capturing Locksmith 6.0's FastCopy Revisiting DOS to ProDOS and Back Computer Eyes/2: A Review APT's and Tips: Sword of Kadash Rescue Raiders Ultimaker IV for Ultima IV Other Softkeys: Murder on the Mississippi (Activision) Troll Associates programs (Troll) Regatta (Howard W Sams) CDex Training programs (Cdex) Think Fast (Brainpower) Issue 44 June 1987 Notes: This is the last of the 'slick' cardboard-style cover issues. Feature Softkeys: Coveted Mirror Escape Microwave Catalyst 3.0 Number Farm Black Cauldron Goonies & Zorro Arcade Boot Camp Crimson Crown CompuBridge Fleet System 3 Feature: Making DOSless Utilities - load your favorite programs into memory without destroying DOS Pixit Printer Drivers Z-RAM Memory Expansion Card - a review A Routine Investigation of the Joystick Other Softkeys: Number Farm and Alphabet Circus (DLM) Joe Thiesman's Pro Football (Avant Garde) International Grandprix Issue 45 July 1987 Notes: This issue is only 30 pages long, and is the first of the paper-only (non-cardboard cover) issues Feature Softkeys: Sands of Egypt Agent USA Kindercomp Wavy Navy Raid Over Moscow Crime Stopper Final Conflict Mouse Calc Number Farm Flight Simulator (Update) Features: Write-Protecting the Microsoft RAM Card Keys to Success on the Franklin ACE Modified F8 ROMs on the Apple /// An Owner's Review of the Copy Master II Issue 46 August 1987 Notes: If the JPG scans seem a little more crooked than in previous issues, it's because they are. The lack of a stiff cover makes it much more difficult to line up the magazine on the scanner bed. Get used to it. The naming of the JPGs has also changed to reflect the change in the page numbering of the issues. The front cover is now counted as page one, and the back cover is now page thirty-two. Page 27 contains an announcement/apology for the lateness of delivery for this issue. Apparently, Computist had finally gone "all-volunteer" with the publishing of this one. All advertising was moved to the last few pages as well. Feature Softkeys: Video Vegas Star Blazer Science Toolkit The Handlers Law of the West OGRE Puzzles & Posters Word Attack (Revisited) Advanced Microsystems Technology Programs Features: The Shift Key and the Lowercase Option for the ][ Plus - a hardware project Amazing Computer Facts - hidden tips and 'easter eggs' for the ][-series Multiscribe: A Review Shape Magic - a utility to aid in coding shape tables Issue 47 September 1987 Notes: This issue features an expanded 48-page format (including the covers) and the debut of RDEX, the Reader's Data Exchange. The extra pages and the new format of the RDEX section allow for many more Softkeys than in previous issues. Features: Enhancement for the Infocom-Text Reader Color Ultimapper mod for Ultimapper IV Towne Mapper utility for Ultima IV Dungeon Mapper utility for Bard's Tale Softkey for Charlie Brown's 1, 2, 3s Putting Your Bit-Copy Utilities Into Fast-Access RAM Drive Hardware Corner: How to Interrupt Your Apple Issue 49 November 1987 Features: Eliminate some ProDOS erroneous error messages - bug fixes for versions 1.1.1, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and ProDOS 8. Date/time without a clock card Sector Surgery - reconstructing the beginning of a sector to recover lost data. Generating Applesoft programs 'on-the-fly' - add lines to a running Applesoft program The Product Monitor Issue 50 December 1987 Features: APT Writer for Super Boulderdash - automatically modify Super Boulderdash so that you get extra men or move on to the cave any time you want. Activision Software - softkeys for Game Maker, Hacker II, Little Computer People, Great American Road Race, Spindizzy, Master of the Lamps and the Rocky Horror Show. Double Your F-8 ROM Space without Motherboard Surgery MECC Software - Super IOB controller for many MECC titles. Ace-Apple Bimodal Switch: Two Machines in One - This project will give your Franklin Ace 1000 complete Apple-compatibility (or vice-versa) with the flip of a switch PFS ProDOS Software - Softkeys for Software Publishing Corp's ProDOS series: pfs:Write, pfs:File, pfs:Graph, pfs:Report and pfs:Plan Using Sider Hard Drives, 3.5" 800k drives, & 5.25" drives in a DOS 3.3 Environment Issue 51 January 1988 Notes: This issue features the debut of the IBM RDEX Features: The Cryptarithmetic Helper - solving encrypted arithmetic problems Using EDD IV to Modify Tracks & Sectors Bard's Tale Dungeon Mapper Revisited - an update to the original RAMfactor Mod for Laser 128 - hardware project APT for Ultima IV - sector editing Ultima IV (including IIgs) Getting Better Sound Using the Cassette Jacks Making a Fast Boot Disk APT for Might & Magic - sector edit Issue 52 February 1988 Notes: This issue features the first IBM Softkeys in the IBM RDEX section Features: The Product Monitor Unprotecting the Unprotectable: Macintosh Softkeys - softkeys for Transylvania, Zork I, Planetfall, MegaFiler & MegaMerge, Mainstreet Filer, Millionaire APT Cornucopia - APTs for Ikari Warriors, Drol, Goonies, Zorro, Cavern Creatures APT for Alternate Reality: Dungeon - Create a Super-human Softkeys for SSI's RDOS Disks Part I - ProDOS RDOS Part II - RDOS Transfer Utility Making Cracked II Plus Disks Work on the IIc