- Iirc the “gazette” version of Compute! Was focused on Commodore machines, whereas Compute was a polyglot of several popular US machines. Theses magazines were a lifeline to a lot of us in the 80’s pre internet. It reminds me how amazing this age is, with regard to freely available information.
by robterrell
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- I worked for Compute! magazine when I was in high school (an excellent job, porting games for one PC to another) and so maybe it's just a me thing, but it seems weird to name this "Compute's Gazette" when there's no connection to the original magazine, besides fandom.
by empressplay
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- I can't find any evidence that they've acquired or licensed the name / trademarks from Ziff Davis, the last known holder of Compute's IP, so I would be wary of giving them any money.
Also the content gives off strong AI vibes
- Retro computing? First title:
> Generative AI and Game Development: A Necessary Evil?
It's not retro computing. It's called click-bait.
- I only clicked the link because the title didn’t spell out “years” and having clicked the link, I don’t get it at all. I need to click a second link inside the website, hopeful I click the right one?
- My dad used to bring me home the Gazette with a box of powdered doughnuts and chocolate milk.
I was 10.
I’d spend the whole weekend typing in all the code and trying to get it to run on our Commodore 64. If it was dinner time, he would bring me a plate and leave me be. I’d be so excited when everything worked and I could show it off to him.
It is the best memory I have of my father.
Thank you dad.
by chuckadams
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- No desire to fire up MLX and type in raw hex from printed source, nope. I got some nostalgia feels when I browsed CG's back catalog on archive.org, but nothing that would make me want ever to do that kind of thing again.
- In another box in the gar-age...yes, a case of Compute magazines(and dead scorpions/scorpion parts).
by helpfulContrib
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- This is great news for those of us who are into retro computing.
Not just because its a great magazine, but it indicates the rise of the retro-computing market as a source of revenue.
There is very definitely an upswell of interest in older computing platforms. As someone who has kept every computer he's ever coded on since 1978, and regularly exhibits them in functioning condition (over 40,000 visitors at one exhibit here in Vienna, alone) I am 100% going to subscribe to this and support its continued publication.
Old computers never die. Their users do.
by entaloneralie
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- AI slop at the top, closed immediately.
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