Your 64 (October 1985)

Source: Your 64 – Issue Number 14 – October 1985

Your 64 is a Commodore 64 magazine that also covered the VIC-20 that was published in the U.K. It was relatively short-lived as a stand-alone magazine as it was incorporated into Your Commodore after 14 issues. The October 1985 issue includes:

Megagames

Rocky LXIV – A review of McGuigan’s World Championship Boxing for the C64.

Desert Island Risks – A review of Spy Vs Spy: The Island Caper for the C64.

Viva Espana! – A look at Torremolinos, a text/graphics adventure with a theme of surviving a vacation in Spain.

Review

Art Attack – A comparison of various art packages for the Commodore 64 including Tony Hart’s Art Master, Paintbox, Doodle, and Mr. Pixel’s Programming Paint Set.

Mind Your Language – A look at programming languages available for the Commodore 64. Products in this overview include Ada, Comal 80, Fig-Forth, Forth+, Forth 64 (from three different companies), Tiny-Forth, White Lighting, Logo, Oxford Pascal, Pascal 64 (from two companies), Pilot, and Pilot-Plus/64.

Games

Arcade Ace – Hints, tips and strategies for Spy Hunter, Dambusters, Rockford’s Riot, Elite, and Summer Games II plus a competition involving Summer Games II.

Miss Adventure – A brief look at Red Moon plus questions answered about The Hulk, Twin Kingdom Valley, and The Hobbit.

Chart Challenge – Top ten game charts including “Top Ten Classics” (Impossible Mission takes the top spot) and “Top Ten Hot Shots” (Pitstop II takes the top spot).

Self Defense – A type-in Defender clone for the C64.

Action Replay – A brief look at various games including Mad Doctor, Ghost Chaser, Ian Botham’s Test Cricket, Racing Destruction Set (a true classic and predecessor to Rock n’ Roll Racing on the Super NES), Kayak, Hypersports, Merlin, Cylu, Tour de France, Beer Belly Bert in Brew Biz, Great American Cross Country Road Race, and Wizard.

Programming

64 Programmer of the Year – A reader submitted sprite creator wins him a Commodore 128. This program is available to type in here.

Open Access

News – Beyond joins forces with Nexus to release Nexus; Ultimate releases Blackwyche; Dk’Tronics releases Popeye; Robocom releases a series of turbo catridges to speed up disk and tape loading; Global Software releases The Magician’s Ball, Activision releases Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus, and Gamemaker; and lots more.

Hardlines – Reviews of books including Artificial Intelligence Projects for the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Expansion Guide, and Peeks and Pokes.

Networds – What’s new on Compunet and Micronet. Not the same as the Internet but one of the closest things to it at the time I suppose.

Hack Attack – Hacks for games (think Game Shark without the Game Shark) including Battle Zone, Bruce Lee, Hunchback, Jumping Jack, Miner 2049’er, Pitfall, Quest for Tires, Ghostbusters, Entombed, and more.

Off the Hook – Programming and technical help including how to use Mid$ in BASIC, info on the best assemblers, using the 1520 printer/plotter with Easyscript, and more.

Core Material

Missives – Letters from readers about joysticks, Commodore 64 coverage in Australia,
Scratchpad – Short programs submitted by readers to removing spaces from programs, displaying a directory without disturbing memory, changing fonts, quick saving any block in memory, and more.