Let's Compute – Issues 1 to 12 (1990-1991)

I love that this is here!

Let's Compute was a brilliant magazine and I loved it. I still feel sad when I remember getting the letter refunding my subscription because it was discontinued.

Unlike other home microcomputer magazines at the time (e.g. Your Sinclair, which I also liked) it was squarely focused on learning to program and it was very wholesome. All kid-friendly but plenty of humour and opportunities to write nice games.

The phrase

> Sometimes the type-ins would specific only to certain platforms, other times they would provide you with the lines to change in order to make it work for your platform.

takes me back, though! The different microcomputers with similar-but-different dialects of BASIC (plus, obviously, you couldn't look up what another micro's BASIC was because you wouldn't have the manual.

Nice. I learned programming reading similar books with Basic programs to type in, with a glossary at the end for commands that differed between Basic dialects — if you have a Commodore 64 type this, if you have an Apple II type this instead.

Also, leafing through this magazine, I was surprised to learn that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK.