Re: Apple magazines

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Tom Zuchowski wrote:

>"Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@excite.com> wrote in message
>news:bctppj$9dp$1@woodrow.ucdavis.edu...
>> I'd like to hear people's opinions on what they think was the best
>magazine
>> in the late 70's and early 80's as a source of Apple ][ information.  I've
>> been reading old issues of Byte magazine but I thought perhaps there would
>> be something better.  Thanks
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>I would say that Micro was the best magazine for the period of the late
>70's, especially for the machine-level programmer, although it was primarily
>a 6502 and not an Apple publication. Call-A.P.P.L.E. was also quite
>exceptional, and it was all-Apple. Then some time in the very early 80's,
>not sure exactly when, Nibble magazine got started and simply blew
>everything else away for Apple II content. Another 80's magazine that I
>found particularly useful was SoftTalk, not least because of Tom Weishaar's
>"Uncle DOS" column.
>
>Tom Weishaar took his column and turned it into his Open-Apple publication.
>It was very, very excellent but it was not a magazine so much as a technical
>newsletter.
>
>For my money Byte had very good Apple II stuff but it generally carried very
>little of it.

Practically my exact sentiments!  Both Micro and Call-A.P.P.L.E. were
addressing the hobbyist/engineer audience, so they really appealed to me.
Both seemed dedicated to pushing the limits of what could be done.

Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" column in byte was one of the richest
sources of Apple II hardware designs in the early 80s.

Nibble was great, but was long on "packaged solutions" as opposed to
"design alternatives" articles.

-michael

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