_{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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