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Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T.

Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.

I would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old.

I had dreams of someday meeting “Dr. Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.

Anyone remember "Compute!"? I still have (mostly) fond memories of typing in games in Basic.

Actually, bugs in those listings were my first bug-hunts as a kid.

Compute!, Dr. Dobb’s, Kilobaud Microcomputing, Byte. Good magazines that are missed.

I finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.