Hardcore Computist (aka Computist Magazine)

[JamesD]

 

 

From 1981 through to the present, Hardcore Computist (now known simply as Computist Magazine) provided the means for Apple II users to remove protection from programs to allow the users to make a legitimate backup copy. The magazine has enjoyed a good measure of success; however, early issues were published in small numbers and are hard to find. In 1999, Michael Maginnis (also known as "Celt") began the painstaking process of digitizing issues of Computist to save them. ...

http://computist.textfiles.com/

[whiteplanet]

That website does not contain issues 53-89.

 

If you use this website:

http://computist.applearchives.com/

It contains Hardcore Computist Issues 1-89 plus mockups of Issues 90,91.
It also contains the Hardcore early magazines,

Core Vol 1-3, Book of Softkeys Vol 1-3 plus all disk libraries.

Or you can use the ASIMOV link.

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentation/magazines/hardcore_computist/

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentation/magazines/hardcore_computing/

Edited September 11, 2016 by whiteplanet

[Keatah]

The asimov material is more up-to-date than anything. I put some missing stuff there and corrected a coupla errors.

[LoTonah]

I have the entire collection hard-bound. Possibly for sale, if anyone is interested!

[whiteplanet]

What were the errors?

Now all we need is The Boot Legger magazine

and it's offshoot The Hacker.

(Yes, I am am aware the The Boot Legger mazagine is

on ASIMOV as .dsks but I would prefer to read it as PDF files)

[Keatah]

Various missing pages and a couple of missing issues. Don't recall the exact errors, it's been so long ago.

[rpiguy9907]

Where can I get issues of A+ ?

[Keatah]

Asimov or Apple2online has both A+, Cider, and A+/Cider combo. Apple2online is where most of the scans originated and is a main highlight there.

[Tbullet]

Yep. I used to subscribe to this publication when it was available. The magazine editions where the best and when they changed to the newspaper style, things started to go downhill. I remember, they didn't last long afterwards. great source for removing copy protection. Ahh, the good old days when you bought a box of floppy discs and wondered what am I going to do with 10 of these?

[Keatah]

We never not knew what to do with a box of disks. They were always in short supply.