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CONTENT

VOLUME 7, NUMBER B

OCTOBER 1990

FEATURES

PAGE 20

SO Kidware HitParade by Belli S.Jala

Learn whatrtWV's education reviewers think is the best educational software for your

children.

A Notable Basic by Chris Newman and Kent Sullivan

Use five C-128 commands to make beautiful music on your C-64.

Time Clock by Terry Bryner

Put an old-fashioned clock face on your C-G4 or C-12B Basic screen.

Do the WriteThing by Ellen Rule

A word processor takes a lot ofthe ledium out ofwriting and editing. Read why.

RUN PaintRenamer by Hugh McMenamin

Change your Koala and Doodle! filenames to make them compatible with RUN Paint.

For the C-128.

Sprite Magician by Scott Wetigarber

Use these 11 SYS commands to pcrlbrm some amazing programming tricks with

animated sprites. AC-64 program.

DEPARTMENTS

Running Ruminations

As the fight for the educational market intensifies, the C-64/128 appears to have fled

the battlefield.

Madid

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Newsand New Products

Recent developments and releases in the world ofCommodore computing.

MailRUN

Thumbs up for GEOS and thumbs down for Nintendo.

Software Gallery Reviews of:

• ISlueAngels

PAGE 28

• Wizardry V

Rick Dangerous

Curse ofBabylon

Battle Chess

• Mega Pack

• Security Alert

• Looney Tunes,

• Batman: The Movie

Sesame Street and

• Altered lieast

Muppets Print Kits

188 Mode by MarkJordan

Discover this important method ofswitching disk drive device numbers.

PhqTips

More productivity tips no astuie computerist should lie without.

Gold Mine by Louis F. Sander

Dramatically improve your gaming scores when playing BattleTcch, Sporting News

Baseball, TheThree Stooges, Zak McKracken, and more.

GEOWATCH by Tim Walsh

Answers to your questions about 15S1 Boot Disk Maker and geoFile, and geoTips to

improve your GEOS computing.

Commodore Clinic by lillvn Rule

You supply the questions; we supply the answers.

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Coming Attractions; ListofAouERTi

' Ifyou'd.rather no! let your fingers do the walking to type in these listing*, you'll find the programs

on (he Augusl/Seplember/OetobM 1990 ReRUN disk. To order, see the card facing page 48.

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