Early versions of MLX accepted input in decimal, but this was later changed to the more compact hexadecimal format. Machine language listings could be entered with a program provided in each issue called MLX (available for Apple II and Commodore hardware, and written in BASIC). Machine code programs were also published, usually for simple video games listed in BASIC DATA statements as hexadecimal numbers that could be POKEd into the memory of a home computer by a 'stub' loader at the beginning of the program. The magazine often featured type-in programs written in these versions of BASIC for their respective computers. Most personal computers of the time came with some version of the BASIC programming language. Later on the 6502 platform focus was dropped and IBM PC, Atari ST series, and the Commodore Amiga series computers were added to its line-up.Ĭompute! also published a very successful line of computer books, many of which consisted of compilations of articles from the magazine. The platforms that became mainstays at the magazine were the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit series, TI-99/4A, and the Apple II series. Support for the kit computers and the Commodore PET were eventually dropped.
It started out with the Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20, the Atari 8-bit series, the Apple II plus, and some 6502-based computers one could build from kits, such as the Rockwell AIM 65, the KIM-1 by MOS Technology, and others from companies such as Ohio Scientific. The magazine's original goal was to write about and publish programs for all of the computers that used some version of the MOS Technology 6502 CPU. The most successful of these was Compute!'s Gazette, catering to Commodore computer users. In its 1980s heyday Compute! covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. From Wikipedia: Compute! (ISSN 0194-357X) was an American computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994, though it can trace its origin to 1978 in Len Lindsay's PET Gazette, one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET computer.
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