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