Magazine coverage for April 1981 but jump ahead in time to cover our first homebrew game, Gem Drop by Bill Kendrick. Bill also invented one of the first software-driven graphics modes, called Super IRG, and we have an interview with him to talk about it.
Introduction
- Ferg's review of BASIC Programming
- River Raid
- Linear Feedback Shift Registers
- Elite II: 100 billion solar systems on 2 floppy disks
- Ten Pence Arcade podcast, Episode 25: Space Invaders
Feedback
- Cross-platform Apple ][ emulator
- You Don't Know Flack Ep. 155: Cassettes
- KansasFest
- Inverse ATASCII
- Vintage Computer Festival
Compute #11, Apr 1981
- Sholes (QWERTY) vs Dvorak keyboard
- Does the Dvorak keyboard increase typing speed?
- VIC-20: First Look
- The Mysterious and Unpredictable RND
- The Atari Gazette
- Unlease the Power of your Atari CPU
- Weird Al's Word Crimes
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