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Sort of OT, but does anyone remember a magazine called "The Gazette"? (IIRC) When I was 10 my dad would bring this magazine home for me each month with chocolat

Sort of OT, but does anyone remember a magazine called "The Gazette"? (IIRC) When I was 10 my dad would bring this magazine home for me each month with chocolate milk and powdered doughnuts and I would sit on our commodore 64 for the whole weekend working with the sample code them had in it. Good times for a 10 year old.

kenjackson 16y ago
Yes, published by the people that did Compute! Just some of the greatest magazines ever written. Even with the web and the wealth of info I miss the excitement of getting an issue of Compute! and reading the programs and the articles by Jim Butterfield. Chocolate milk, powdered donuts, the Gazette magazine, a C64, a dad, and his 10 year old son... Darn near brought a tear to my eye.
- jason_slack 16y ago
  at 33 now, this is by far the fondest memory I have of my dad. I looked forward to it every month. I would sit there, fall asleep there, I was brought dinner at the C64. We had a cassette player so I could save my work. I still remember when I started planning out my own programs. My dad bought me a box of dot-matrix printer paper and I went to town planning out my "apps" Now with my own 12 year old son, He is writing iPhone apps and plotting his timeline to becoming CEO of Apple.
jerf 16y ago
"Compute!'s Gazette", actually, which I mention because if you use that term to Google you'll find a lot more stuff than just "Gazette". I hesitate to endorse what is technically piracy, but I would observe that there is a torrent of the entire run of the magazine. (However I find the odds of anybody ever releasing back issues of the magazine for profit to be negligible and the public's interest in archiving history wins in my judgment.) How strange to think back to all the articles I remember reading, the games I would never play, the hardware I would never own... and of course now it's all so archaic you couldn't hardly pay me to use it. And if I wanted to, I'd emulate it, and the emulator would be lucky to consume 1% of the machine sitting on my lap's resources.

kenjackson 16y ago

Yes, published by the people that did Compute! Just some of the greatest magazines ever written. Even with the web and the wealth of info I miss the excitement of getting an issue of Compute! and reading the programs and the articles by Jim Butterfield. Chocolate milk, powdered donuts, the Gazette magazine, a C64, a dad, and his 10 year old son... Darn near brought a tear to my eye.

jason_slack 16y ago
at 33 now, this is by far the fondest memory I have of my dad. I looked forward to it every month. I would sit there, fall asleep there, I was brought dinner at the C64. We had a cassette player so I could save my work. I still remember when I started planning out my own programs. My dad bought me a box of dot-matrix printer paper and I went to town planning out my "apps" Now with my own 12 year old son, He is writing iPhone apps and plotting his timeline to becoming CEO of Apple.

jerf 16y ago

"Compute!'s Gazette", actually, which I mention because if you use that term to Google you'll find a lot more stuff than just "Gazette". I hesitate to endorse what is technically piracy, but I would observe that there is a torrent of the entire run of the magazine. (However I find the odds of anybody ever releasing back issues of the magazine for profit to be negligible and the public's interest in archiving history wins in my judgment.) How strange to think back to all the articles I remember reading, the games I would never play, the hardware I would never own... and of course now it's all so archaic you couldn't hardly pay me to use it. And if I wanted to, I'd emulate it, and the emulator would be lucky to consume 1% of the machine sitting on my lap's resources.