_{Cover of the January 1982 issue of Compute!}

Compute!, at least in its earlier days, exclusively covered computers based on the 6502 CPU. In early 1982 these included the Commodore PET, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, and others. The January 1982 issue includes:

Columns

• The Editor's Notes - Atari goes after creators of Atari game clones.


• Ask The Readers - Questions asked and answerd about chaining programs in BASIC on Commodore computers, the future of the 6502, software protection, accessing all 48K of RAM on the Atari, and more.


• Computers And Society - An article on the Turing test and measuring artificial intelligence.

Applications

• INVEST - A BASIC type-in program for helping you to calculate various things with regards to realestate investing.


• Developing A Business Algorithm - Creating a program to perform various business calculations including things like interest, lease calculations, taxes, and more.


• Anti-Hesitation Programming: A Tutorial on Arrays - Getting around slowness when using arrays in Microsoft BASIC.

Education

• Friends Of The Turtle - A new society with the goal of promoting turtle graphics with languages such as Atari PILOT, TI LOGO, and Apple LOGO.


• Learning With Computers - A look at how computers might change schools in the future.

The Apple Gazette

• Apple Addresses - Hexadecimal and decimal addressing on the Apple II.


• More Apple Hi-Res Shape Writer - A type-in program for creating hi-res shapes on the Apple II.


• Lower Case With Unmodified Apple - A program that allow you to use lower case letters without hardware modification on the Apple II.

_{Table of Contents from the January 1982 issue of Compute!}

The Atari Gazette

• Cryptogram - A type-in game for Atari 8-bit computers in which you mus decipher the code.


• SuperFont - A type-in program for the Atari that allows you to create your own fonts.


• Word Search - A type-in program for the Atari that allows you to create word search games.

The OSI Gazette

• Part I: A Small Operating System: OS65D The Disk Routines - Part one of a two part series on using a disk drive with the OSI.

The PET Gazette

• A Yuletide Tale - A Christmas Carol starring the PET.


• Renumbering An Appended Routine Only - A guide to appending one program to another on the PET.


• BRANCH NEVER And QUIF Assembling On SuperPET - Assembly language programming on the SuperPET (which uses a 6809 CPU).


• PET Repairs For The Amateur - A guide to various PET problems that are mostly the result of loose connections.


• Realtime Clock On Your PET Screen - A type-in real-time clock routine for the PET.

VIC-20 Update

• TINYMON1: A Simple Monitor For The VIC - A type-in machine language monitor for the VIC-20.


• VIC Color Tips - A tutorial for using color in your programs for the VIC-20.


• VIC Memory Map Above Page Zero - A list of memory locations and their functions on the VIC-20.

_{Back cover of the January 1982 issue of Compute!}

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