Atari_Ace Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Still haven't had a chance to try the Program Perfect but I will. Just wanted to add here that I got two more issues of Computer Shopper. Dec. 87 and March 1988. It looks like in between these two issues Atari 8-bit coverage was dropped. I will scan the December 1987 issue at some point. Allan In ZMagazine's Z*Net, vol. 1, No. 9 (included in the November 1989 JACG Newsletter, and other user group newsletters), the following Newswire item appeared: Computer Shopper Magazine will end its long support for the 8-bit Atari and other older computer lines with its December 1989 issue. New editor Bob Lindstrom is an Atari ST owner himself, and appreciates the power of the small computer as well, but has had no advertisers that seem to be concerned over the older units. The dropping of the "classic computers" is part of a refocusing of Computer Shopper, a 700 page monthly magazine that still will carry ST material, often with 5 or more articles per month. IBM and MAC will be the main direction now, with some additional Atari ST, Amiga, and Apple II coverage. These last three are in danger of also being dropped if sales and interest remain sluggish. The point seems to be, if it doesn't sell ads, they don't need the circulation that the small computers might satisfy. So perhaps coverage continued on and off throughout 1988 and 1989. I've extended to April 1986 the Applying the Atari columns from Computer Shopper at http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/columns/ata.htm. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 I spent some time today getting this working, Fully tested. So if anybody wants to enter some Computer Shopper programs, we now have Program Perfect to help with errors. Allan Program_Perfect_4.atr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 I started in on the December, 1985 issue. It has a bunch of short programs to get my feet wet. Allan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroDD Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I had only purchased one copy of Computer Shopper back in the day and I remember typing in the Response Analysis Program from the September 1985 issue. It was an Eliza-like therapy simulation, and was good for a laugh. (My juvenile mind figuring out how to trigger the "same to you, buster!" response) Now thanks to the work of @Allan and @Atari_Ace I have been able to experience it again. I've attached an ATR with the program if anyone is interested. Computer_Shopper_Sept_1985-RAP.atr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 On 12/9/2020 at 4:08 PM, AeroDD said: I had only purchased one copy of Computer Shopper back in the day and I remember typing in the Response Analysis Program from the September 1985 issue. It was an Eliza-like therapy simulation, and was good for a laugh. (My juvenile mind figuring out how to trigger the "same to you, buster!" response) Now thanks to the work of @Allan and @Atari_Ace I have been able to experience it again. I've attached an ATR with the program if anyone is interested. Computer_Shopper_Sept_1985-RAP.atr 90.02 kB · 5 downloads Thanks for typing this in. Eventually I'd like to type all the Atari 8-bit Computer Shopper magazine programs in and put them on one ATR disk image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 On 12/9/2020 at 4:08 PM, AeroDD said: I had only purchased one copy of Computer Shopper back in the day and I remember typing in the Response Analysis Program from the September 1985 issue. It was an Eliza-like therapy simulation, and was good for a laugh. (My juvenile mind figuring out how to trigger the "same to you, buster!" response) Now thanks to the work of @Allan and @Atari_Ace I have been able to experience it again. I've attached an ATR with the program if anyone is interested. Computer_Shopper_Sept_1985-RAP.atr 90.02 kB · 11 downloads On 12/10/2020 at 7:46 PM, Allan said: Thanks for typing this in. Eventually I'd like to type all the Atari 8-bit Computer Shopper magazine programs in and put them on one ATR disk image. Thank you, this is a goal I'd love to see accomplished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mo Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 On 4/2/2019 at 7:27 PM, Allan said: I started scanning in the Atari articles in Computer Shopper magazine with my new 17 x 11 scanner. Here's the first issue. https://archive.org/details/ComputerShopperNov85Vol5No11AtariArticles Each issue had a number of 8-bit program listings. Anybody want to type them in? It would be great to eventually see them all on a couple of ATR disk images. Allan Was just looking through these. I recall writing a review of Spectrum 512 for Computer Shopper...my only piece for them (I mostly wrote for ST-Log), but for the life of me I can't remember what issue is was in! Probably some time in 1988. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Ironically I just won four issues of Computer Shopper/ They are all from 1988. I will scan them soon and post them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Not seen one in a long time, That was a cheap HUGE heavy magazine, and the few pages at the back for atari was always cool. I typed in a few back then. Thanks for these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 22 hours ago, Big_Mo said: Was just looking through these. I recall writing a review of Spectrum 512 for Computer Shopper...my only piece for them (I mostly wrote for ST-Log), but for the life of me I can't remember what issue is was in! Probably some time in 1988. @Big_Mo The Computer Shopper issues came today. Non of them have your review in them. Some day we will find it and archive it. I got January, February, April and August of '88. So at least you know it was not in one of those issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mo Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 On 4/15/2021 at 5:30 PM, Allan said: @Big_Mo The Computer Shopper issues came today. Non of them have your review in them. Some day we will find it and archive it. I got January, February, April and August of '88. So at least you know it was not in one of those issues. Yeah, it would probably have been in 1988 since I remember Andy Eddy and I did the interview at the Atari Fair in Worcester, Mass October 1987. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 I sent in to buy one of his CS program disks. But I don't remember much else. I'll look for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 On 6/20/2021 at 6:24 AM, Larry said: I sent in to buy one of his CS program disks. But I don't remember much else. I'll look for it. I know it's been a while but just curious if you had a chance to look for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Now that I am done with posting the Dal-Ace newsletters I have started scanning the Atari 8-bit and ST articles in the Computer Shopper issues I have. I just uploaded the November, 1987 issue. I uploaded the February and April, 1988 issues in the past couple of days. I have January and August here to scan plus I have the July 1987 issue on it's way. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 7 hours ago, Allan said: I know it's been a while but just curious if you had a chance to look for this? Well, to be honest, it slipped my mind. Consider me reminded! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 Here is a new issue. Archive.org processing it. Should be available very soon. https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1988-vol-8-num-8-atari-articles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 The last of the Computer Shopper Atari articles that I have are scanned. https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-january-1988-vol-8-num-1-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-july-1987-vol-7-num-7-atari-articles/mode/2up If anybody knows of anyone with 83' to '89 Computer Shopper issues, please let me know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentarian Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Allan, Are you only wanting 8bit content from CS? I found a March 1990 copy, but it only has ST articles. I have a 11x17 scanner if you want me to scan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 I have been scanning both ST and 8-bit articles from each issue. If you can, please scan the ST articles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 I have about ten pages that I saved from April of 1986. There was an article about doubling the RAM in a 520ST, and a bunch of adds. The last page number in my saved clipping is 152. I don't remember the magazine being that big! DavidMil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 I got six more issues of Computer Shopper from 1988 and 1989. Will be scanned soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-november-1989-vol-9-num-10-atari-articles/mode/2up November, 1989 issue. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 More issues of Computer Shopper: https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-july-1988-vol-8-num-7-atari-articles/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-may-1989-vol-9-num-5-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-september-1989-vol-9-num-9-atari-articles/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-october-1989-vol-9-num-10-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1989-vol-9-num-6-atari-articles/mode/2up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mo Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Thanks for continuing to scan these. Hope sooner or later my review shows up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 13, 2022 Author Share Posted February 13, 2022 I picked up four more of these from 1987 and 1988. Will scan them soon. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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