Interview with someone trying to revive Compute's Gazette

a year ago by rodneylives to c/c64

The interview is with the podcast Floppy Days. Compute's Gazette was the king of the type-in program magazines, an entire industry that's gone now. James Nagle swooped in and grabbed the trademark when it expired, and is planning a general retro-computing magazine. He plans on reviving the Gazette, but not Compute itself.

rodneylives 3 points a year ago

I discovered recently that it was called Compute's Gazette as a reference to The PET Gazette, which was the homebrew magazine that was Compute's predecessor. When The PET Gazette diversified and started covering a variety of computers, there was still demand for a Commodore-specific publication. They seem to have tacked the "Gazette" onto it to refer to their origins as a Commodore-specific publication.

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toast 2 points a year ago

Didn't know the back story, thanks! I remember picking these up from time to time when I was learning to program.

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nixfreak 1 point a year ago

This magazine is actually coming back since commodore was recently purchased.

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