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•-• ONTENTS

MARCH 1985

NEWS

Special report from the Consumer Electronics Show in

Las Vegas, plus more of the latest news in the Commodore

world

1 2 TAKE THREE TABLETS

We look at three drawing tablets for the Commodore 64 that

let you draw on a ﬂat surface rather than use keyboard or joystick

1 7 C - 1 6 SOFTWARE SUPPORT

The C-16 has been selling well, but are there any games you

can play on it? We asked around for some opinions about the

machine - there's also an indispensible list of what's available

1 MICRO-WAVE RADIO

Introducing a new series to broaden your horizons. In

the next four months, we'll show you how to use your Vic

or 84 to get on the air-waves

2 4 ADVENTURE

ThismonthAvelookalthelatestAmericanbrain-bashers

to cross the Atlantic. a new adventure chart and, of course.

a regular competition

2 7 TURTLES ON THE MOVE

Chris Durham introduces the LOCO language and reviews a

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3 6 SOUND EFFECTS WITH SID

This months Sill offering lets you in on the delights of hard

synch and ring modulation. What? Oh, we show you how to get some

good sound effects

REGULARS

4 0 BOOK REVIEWS

We rev iew two teach-yourself guides

4 9 SCREEN SCENE

Exclusive review of OMR n and Indiana

Jonas

to assembly language, and a new

general guide to the Vic

4 5 THE HAPPYHACKER

Our who's hocking villa guide. with

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Solitaire for the134, a brain-teaser for

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5 6 BUSINESS USER

A look at the multi-purpose business

program — Vizastar.plus all the

businessnews

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COMMODORE

I hope it's about to happen. I just got l , I N

'cause you're ready for World War l

back f r o m t h e s e mi-a nnua l C o n -

sumer Electronics S h o w e x tr a v a -

ganza in Las Vegas. and I'll tell ya —

Atari a nd Commodore are a bout to

go a t i t a ga in. Just lik e i n the ol d

days.

Seeing those two heavyweights lace

off a t adjacent booths was almost as

exciting as hitting my number a t the

roulette ta bl e s , A n d s e e i ng o l d

Commodore boss Jack Tramiel strut-

ting around the Ata ri booth like he

owned i t (he always did, really) was

The new C 128 - more memory then two

like Rona ld Reagan ta k ing ov e r as

elephants?

head of the Russian Politburo,

A few years back, you'll remember

have another monster success on their

Jack le t the Commodore Vic-20 a nd

hands. Long live the Commodore 64!

Commodore 6 4 loose on the world,

They're already talking about cutting

slugging it out with the Atari 400/800

its pr i c e drastically w he n t h e 1 2 8

and 800XL. Jack and Commodore won

comes out. I should also mention that

World War I. Now we've moved to the

the 128 will have a n optional mouse

next generation machines — c o m -

control and a new FAST disk drive —

puters w i t h r e a l muscles — a n d

the 1571.

Commodore and Atari are going head

to head all over again. I'm telling you,

Lap

it's so exciting, my ﬁngers are slipping

And there's also a really nice looking

off my Macintosh keyboard.

"lap" machine — the LCD Portable —

hel

which should be out soon in the States

New machines:

for just $500. This one weighs just three

But seriously, everybody I know just

pounds, has 32K, a built-in modem,

about fe l l off the ir chairs when w e

and is

compatible with all Commodore

found out that the new Commodore 128

peripherals. It comes with built-in soft-

is going to be fully compatible with the

ware to o — w o r d processing, ﬁ l e

Commodore 6 4 . I ts a miracle! They

management, spreadsheet, a ddre s s

actually listened to us for a change. We

book, scheduler, calculator, m e m o

can buy the 128 (that's 128K, of course)

pad, a n d communications software.

without having to junk all the software

What more does a guy want?

we bought for the 64. It's about time.

So what does Jack have to say about

Actually, we're getting to the point that

these guys hove to make the ir com-

puters compatible. Tossing a Vic-20 in

the trash-can wasn't such a big deal —

the machine was practically a toy. But

as computers g e t m o r e powe rful,

people will refuse to dispose of them

and buy a whole new system so easily.

all this? At the Atari press conference,

somebody asked Tramiel what h e

thought o f Co mmo d o re' s n e w

machines and he said, "I didn't see any

new machines!" What a comedian!

Jack put on quite a show of his own.

The guy bought Atari just six months

ago, and he's already got a truckload

of products to show off. The most ex-

citing was his 130ST and 520ST com-

puters, w h i ch w e re immediately

dubbed "Jackintosh." That's right.

Jack must have sat down with his en-

gineers and said, " I want a Macintosh

and! want it cheap," because that's ex-

actly what they gave him. The screen

features movable windows, icons, pull

down menus, and you control them all

with th e mouse. I f tha t don't re a d

Macintosh, I don't know what does. I t

even has a built in Breakout game.

More importantly, th e thi ng i s i n

colour (Ma c is black and white) and

the price is supposed to be between

$400 a nd $600. I 'v e been saying a l l

along that if somebody could come out

with a Macintosh for less than $1,000,

they'd sell millions of them. Now they

have, Atari's only problem is that the

ST line isn't compatible with anything

in the known world, so there's no soft-

Commodore ICO portable for bofﬁns on the move.

Anyway, here's the specs on the C-128

(has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?). It's

expandable to 512K, comes with 40/80

column switch, runs all CPiM software

and a ll 6,000 or so 64 programs, is

compatible

with all 64 peripherals, has

a nice 92-key keyboard with a 14-key

numeric keypad, a nd eight program-

mable function keys.

Enough numbers, already. It sounds

like the thing cooks, I f Commodore

can deliver the 128 when they promise

(Spring in the States), at the price that

they're hinting (under $300), they may

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