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Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published “Big Computer Games: Enhanced Edition” – a new edition of the classic games programming book from 1984. Originally edited by David H. Ahl of Creative Computing, this “Enhanced Edition” has a new preface from David written in 2022. The cover has been redesigned and the book contains over 120 pages of enhanced scans. Third in the Creative Computing series of best-selling computer games books, Big…

One need only to look at the names listed in the contributing authors listings and the staff listings to get an idea as to the significance historically of a magazine. One such magazine was ROM – Computer Applications for Living, a magazine that had impressive beginnings and eventually became one of the portfolio of one of the most significant magazines of the 1970’s and 1980’s. That would be Creative Computing Magazine. But we are getting just a bit ahead of…

For those of us who grew up in the early computing world, there were a few magazines which we had to choose from to fill our computer dreams and to learn things that most of our colleagues had no idea about. They were Byte, Kilobaud, Personal Computing, and of course the David Ahl created Creative Computing. David Ahl is well known for his books, BASIC Computer Games and More BASIC Computer Games from the 1970’s as well as dozens of…

by Wade Clarke This is my ‘new’ (IE previously unreleased anyplace) version of Super Star Trek for the Apple II Time to share another old game of mine with folks in the internet age 🙂 You can download the disk image here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bloomer/STARTREK.zip In 1995 I put together this version of ye olde ‘Super Star Trek’ game, using pseudo-animated mousetext graphics and some nice sound effects.  The interface is also friendly, you just tap a key to do most things….