Old computer magazines

Wow! We got our first computer when I was 11 -- an Apple IIc my parents brought home over Thanksgiving weekend, 1986. The store they bought it from was also giving away free subscriptions to Compute at InCider magazines. I spent MANY hours pouring over these magazines and later when I learned BASIC, typing in the programs they would give away for free in the back of the magazine.

Anyone else remember InCider and A+ for the Apple II?

There was an old magazine called the C User's Journal a while back. Then it became the C/C++ User's Journal. Finally it either got purchased by Dr. Dobbs or it became Dr. Dobbs. I'd love to get a look at some of those articles in the CUJ. Dobbs doesn't seem to have articles online anymore from this era. I think my only hope is to make it to a well known university library..

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...

Creative Computing was the first computer mag I ever bought, I remember it disappearing and by then I was onto Byte and Nibble. Of these shown for a while I subscribed to STart and even had a little article published in it, March 1990 ("GFA Basic Wipes & Dissolves). Good times.

Not that related but still very cool http://cd.textfiles.com/

Contains all the old CD collections from 90s ! All the demoscene,Aminet archives , Black Philes .....

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

Amiga Power

The best part is the web-only follow-up to the deceased mag:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/

What's really nice about these old magazines is, usually, the publisher (usually a small outfit now moved onto other markets) lets people put them up on the Web.

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.

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

Where's Byte? :-o