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Re: Old computer magazines

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Post by antirez » Sat, May 08, 2010, 4:48 PM UTC

In Italy there was an old computer magazine called MCmicrocomputer. It was awesome: algorithms and data structures explained, for instance there was a great serie on compression, one on low level encoding of images in video cards, and so forth. Game programming, assembler, logic games, UNIX, science fiction! and many other advanced topics in their pages. I was 11 when I started reading this stuff, so it was more or less 22 years ago. I still miss this wonderful magazine.

There is a wonderful project to bring all the 20 years archive back online: http://www.mcmicrocomputer.org/

Edit: from the archives, an interesting article about anagrams. Very funny to read as there was no easy way to get a wordlist at the time, so a completely different approach is used. http://issuu.com/adpware/docs/mc048/37?zoomed=true&zoomP...

Re: Old computer magazines

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Post by spking » Sat, May 08, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

Many of these covers remind me of this: http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

Re: Old computer magazines

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Post by chipsy » Sat, May 08, 2010, 5:46 PM UTC

Not listed: A.N.A.L.O.G. http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/ A favored source of type-in games. I recall the James Hague that runs dadgum.com submitted some games to either A.N.A.L.O.G. or Antic, and possibly articles too.

Re: Old computer magazines

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Post by mwexler » Sat, May 08, 2010, 5:52 PM UTC

wazoox wrote: post #3

Ah, all those long nights typing in countless lines of hex in DATA lines :)

And saving them to cassettes...

Re: Old computer magazines

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Post by wazoox » Sun, May 09, 2010, 10:54 AM UTC

mwexler wrote: post #14

wazoox wrote: post #3

Ah, all those long nights typing in countless lines of hex in DATA lines :)

And saving them to cassettes...

Then copying them with the double deck to give to friends :)