RUN

Volume 2, issue 6 (June, 1985)

Table of Contents

Features

Making Music on the C-64

It's been over a year since our first music feature ("Tune Up Your Commodore," RUN, April 1984), and many exciting programs and products have been released since then. From keyboard synthesizers and MIDI interfaces to music tutorials, the computer music business is booming!

Tom Benford

Utilities: C-64 Big Letters

Here are three utility programs that let you type onto your screen 48 colorful letters, numbers and other symbols, four times their normal size.

Jimmy W. Bernard

The C-128: How Does It Stack Up?

This article looks closely at the C-128 in relation to its two main competitors, the Apple IIc and IBM PCjr.

Margaret Morabito

Utilities: Call the Doctor

This disk utility has a remedy for just about all your disk problems and is a valuable tool for regular disk checkups.

John Tanzini

Utilities: Bad Blocks?

Why aren't your programs loading? Is it your disk or your disk drive? THis article helps you find the answer.

Joseph J. Shaughnessy

C-64 Shuffle

Luck won't help you here. Careful planning and shooting are the keys to winning this game.

Buck Childress

Telecommunications... On-Line with Dow Jones

RUN continues its series on telecommunications, with coverage of the Dow Jones News/Retrieval service - the best for financial and investment news. It also provides a wide array of general services, including shopping, airline scheduling, MCI Mail service and more.

Margaret Morabito

Utilities: A Dozen Will Do It

The C-64's eight function keys can become 12 by means of some programming magic.

Ronald Greenberg

Double Your Basic! - More Commands at Your Fingertips

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Here's Basic 4.5, a professional quality extended BAsic that adds all the Basic 4.0 commands to your C-64's Basic plus sprite graphics, music, windows and additional disk commands.

Robert Rockefeller

Departments

RUNning Ruminations

Magic

$1FA: Automatic UNNEW
$1FB: Basic UNNEW for the C-64
$1FC: Emercency UNNEW
$1FD: ROMwriter
$1FE: C-64 List freezer
$1FF: Compatible color RAM
$200: Machine language in tape buffer
$201: Tricky screen formatting
$202: PRINT# to the screen
$203: Word trick winner
$204: Plus/4 and C-16 graphics
$205: C-16 and Plus/4 screen titles
$206: SX-64 disk tip
$207: 1520 plottter supplies
$208: Disk error light
$209: Koala Pad buttons
$20A: Okimate programs
$20B: Paper for the Okimate 10
$20C: Left-handed joysticks
$20D: Call waiting
$20E: Flip files
$20F: Loading from tape
$210: Easy RUN

Louis F. Sander

Software Gallery

Fleet System 2; 1541 Physical Exam; F-15 Strike Eagle; Fast Load; Vizastar 64; HomePak; Print Shop; Sky Travel

Susan Tanona

Mail RUN

RUN's Great Giveaway

Hardware Gallery

114

SG-15 Printer; Cardkey-1; Okimate 10

Susan Tanona

Commodore Clinic

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