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''Compute!'s Gazette'' () was a computer magazine of the 1980s, directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers. Publishing its first issue in July 1983, the ''Gazette'' was a Commodore-only daughter magazine of the computer hobbyist magazine ''Compute!''. ''Compute!'s Gazette'' contained both standard articles and type-in programs. Many of these programs were quite sophisticated and lengthy. To assist in entry, ''Gazette'' published several utilities. "The Automatic Proofreader" provided checksum capabilities for BASIC programs, while machine language listings could be entered with "MLX". Starting in May 1984, a companion disk containing all the programs from each issue was available to subscribers for an extra fee. Perhaps ''Gazette''s most popular and enduring type-in application was the ''SpeedScript'' word processor. A monthly column entitled The VIC Magician by Michael Tomczyk presented BASIC programming tips and tricks for the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64. Towards the end of the 1980s, the magazine's size steadily decreased due to the increasing switch from 8-bit to 16-bit home computers. The last stand-alone issue of ''Compute!'s Gazette'' was published with cover date June 1990. At that point, the ''Compute!'' brand, including ''Gazette'', was sold to the publishers of ''Omni'' and ''Penthouse''. After a three-month publication hiatus, ''Gazette'' restarted publication, this time as an insert into the newly consolidated (and renamed) ''Compute'' rather than as a separate magazine. It continued in this vein until December 1993, after which it switched to a disk-only format. Due to the declining Commodore userbase, publication ceased entirely after February 12, 1995. ==External links== *(''Compute!'s Gazette'' ) at the Internet Archive *(''Compute!'s Gazette'' Index ) – At the Classic Computer Magazine Archive, assembled by Kevin Savetz *(''Compute!'s Gazette'' PDF Index ) – Retroputing's downloadable PDF archive (watermarked) *(''Compute!'s Gazette ) at DHL's Commodore Archive website 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Compute!'s Gazette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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