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| Features | |
| Extended Color BASIC for the TRS-80 Color Computer | 36 |
| Fast, easy and inexpensive graphics are finally available for personal computers with this new system from Radio Shack. |
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| Stan Miastkowski |
| The Commodore VIC 20 Microcomputer: A Low-Cost, High-Performance Consumer Computer | 46 |
| The VIC 20 has color, sound, graphics and expandability, and sells for $299,95. |
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| Gregg Williams |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: DC Motor Controls: Build a Motorized Platform | 46 |
| Appropriate circuits can very precisely control permanent-magnet DC motors. |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Washington Tackles the Software Problem | 128 |
| Recent court decisions pave the way for more software protection against piracy. |
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| Christopher Kern |
| Legal Protection for Computer Hardware and Software | 140 |
| An overview of partents, copyrights, and trade secrets, and how they relate to computer software and hardware protection. |
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| Stephen A. Becker |
| Wire-Wrapping and Proto-System Techniques | 152 |
| Construction of homebrew designs is greatly aided by the complete wire-wrapping systems from Vector Electronics. |
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| Adolph Mangieri |
| Speeding Up TRS-80 Graphics | 171 |
| Improve the response time of BASIC graphics displays on your TRS-80. |
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| Ronald Bobo, John Knoderer |
| An Integer Math Package for the 8080 | 204 |
| These routines are useful when you need arithemitc operations on signed 16-bit number. |
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| Bruce D. Carbrey |
| Using Interrupts on the Apple II System | 280 |
| The use of interrupts in the 6502 microprocessor is demonstrated using an Apple II. |
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| George M. White |
| Digital Plotting with the Apple II Computer | 296 |
| Interface an x,y plotter directly to an Apple II with a minimum of hardware. |
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| Richard C. Hallgren |
| Recursion and Side Effects in Pascal | 316 |
| The use of global and local variables can change how program works. |
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| Robert Morris |
| DEMONS: A Symbolic Debugging Monitor | 326 |
| Debug your machine-language programs for 6800-based systems using instruction mnemonics. |
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| A. I. Halsema |
| Build a Super Simple Floppy-Disk Interface, Part 1 | 360 |
| Ten integrated circuits can provide all the features of a commercial disk controller at a fraction of the cost. |
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| James Nicholson, Roger Camp |
| A File Catalog System for UCSD Pascal | 408 |
| Keep track of all those scattered files with this organization system. |
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| Edward Heyman |
| Numerical Methods In Data Analysis | 436 |
| Gauss-Jordon elimination and the Newton-Raphson method can be used to find the function curve that best fits a set of empirically determined data. |
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| Toan C. Nguyen |
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| Reviews | |
| The Epson MX-22 and MX-70 Printers | 22 |
| Kevin Cohan |
| BYTE's Arcade | 106 |
| Star Raiders; Super Nova; Tranquility Base; Asteroids in Space and Planetoids |
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| Gregg Williams, Bob Liddil, Robin Moore, Oliver Holt |
| Dancing Demon from Radio Shack | 148 |
| Elizabeth Cooper, Yvon Kolya |
| Super STEP | 248 |
| Stanley D. Robbins |
| Wordsmith | 254 |
| Mark Dahmke |
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| Nucleus | |
| Editorial: How Can We Stop Software Piracy? | 6 |
| Chris Morgan |
| Letters | 12 |
| System Notes: Improve TRS-80 Disk Operation: Add an External Data Separator | 102 |
| Ken Kline |
| System Notes: Faster BASIC for the Ohio Scientific | 236 |
| John A. Sauter |
| Programming Quickies | 122, 430 |
Using Page Two with Apple Pascal Turtle Graphics
Printf for the C Function Library |
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| Cartoon | 126 |
| Education Formu: Getting Problem-Solving Advice From a Computer | 186 |
| Desk-Top Wonders: A Cheeboard Jorney on the TI-59 Programmable Calculator | 198 |
| Technical Forum | 228,378,452,458 |
Print Your Own Bar Codes: UPC Bar Codes With the Centronics 737
PAPERBYTE Bar Codes with Integral Data System Printers
Favorite Benchmarks and Other Programs
Build a Noise-Based Random-Number Generator
Fast Fourier Comes Back |
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| BYTE's Bugs | 232, 252 |
| Book Reviews | 244, 380 |
Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, 2nd Edition
Travels in Computerland, or Incompatibilities & Interfaces |
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| BYTELINES | 262 |
| BYTE's Bits | 278, 428 |
| Ask BYTE | 384 |
| Software Received | 394 |
| Books Received | 398 |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 404 |
| Event Queue | 447 |
| What's New? | 463 |
| Unlassified Ads | 510 |
| BOMB, BOMB Results | 511 |
| Reader Service | 512 |