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[[Category:CPC Press]]
  
Your Computer was a British multi-platform magazine published monthly from 1981 to 1988. There was an Australian version of this magazine as well, of the same name and similarly themed (it ran from 1981 to 1997).
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Your Computer was a British multi-platform magazine published monthly from 1981 to 1988 covering the range of home microcomputers along the way. Your Computer was a spin-off from the British magazine [[Practical Computing]]. In early 1987 they starting focusing on the PC and Mac markets and got rid of type-ins etc which also lost a lot of readers. Within a year the magazine closed. There was an Australian version of this magazine as well, of the same name and similarly themed (however it ran longer - from 1981 to 1997).
  
It contains some info about the early CPC history - for example, a CPC464 preview in the May 1984 issue (a month before the CPC464 was launched in June 1984) - which isn't found in CPC-specific magazines like [[Amstrad Computer User]] (which was launched in August 1984).
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It contains some info about the early CPC history - for example, a CPC464 preview in the May 1984 issue (a month before the CPC464 was launched in June 1984) - which isn't found in CPC-specific magazines like [[Amstrad Computer User]] (which was launched in August 1984). Other Amstrad content such as reviews and type-ins followed and became regular. By early 1987 CPC content began to taper off.
  
 
== Cover scans ==
 
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== CPC Type-ins ==
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== Your Computer CPC Type-ins ==
  
 
Some early CPC type-ins. '''Caution:''' Quality of the scans isn't perfect (some are printed in tiny letters, which are more or less impossible to decipher). Please upload better scans...!
 
Some early CPC type-ins. '''Caution:''' Quality of the scans isn't perfect (some are printed in tiny letters, which are more or less impossible to decipher). Please upload better scans...!
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Please find a number of programs from Your Computer are available through CPC-Power Archives:
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http://www.cpc-power.com/cpcarchives/index.php?page=articles&num=127
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Better scans are also available too.
  
 
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File:YourComputer841100123.jpg|Nov 1984, Word Processor 2/3
 
File:YourComputer841100123.jpg|Nov 1984, Word Processor 2/3
 
File:YourComputer841100124.jpg|Nov 1984, Word Processor 3/3
 
File:YourComputer841100124.jpg|Nov 1984, Word Processor 3/3
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File:YourComputer_1984_11_0189.jpg|Nov 1984, Roulette (scan a 1/2)
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File:YourComputer_1984_11_0194.jpg|Nov 1984, Roulette (scan a 2/2)
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File:YourComputer841100190.jpg|Nov 1984, Roulette (scan b 1/2)
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File:YourComputer841100195.jpg|Nov 1984, Roulette (scan b 1/2)
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File:YourComputer_1984_11_0196.jpg|Nov 1984, Char definer
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File:YourComputer_1984_11_0200.jpg|Nov 1984, Char definer
 
File:YourComputer841200143.jpg|Dec 1984, Making Music 1/3
 
File:YourComputer841200143.jpg|Dec 1984, Making Music 1/3
 
File:YourComputer841200145.jpg|Dec 1984, Making Music 2/3
 
File:YourComputer841200145.jpg|Dec 1984, Making Music 2/3
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File:YourComputer860600082.jpg|Jun 1986, Animation
 
File:YourComputer860600082.jpg|Jun 1986, Animation
 
File:YourComputer860700072.jpg|Jul 1986, Graphics/Char demo
 
File:YourComputer860700072.jpg|Jul 1986, Graphics/Char demo
File:YourComputer860700073.jpg|Jul 1886, Graphics/Char demo
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File:YourComputer860700073.jpg|Jul 1986, Graphics/Char demo
 
File:YourComputer860900078.jpg|Sept 1986, Colour Demo
 
File:YourComputer860900078.jpg|Sept 1986, Colour Demo
 
File:YourComputer860900079.jpg|Sept 1986, Colour Demo
 
File:YourComputer860900079.jpg|Sept 1986, Colour Demo
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File:YourComputer861200080.jpg|Dec 1986, Game: Mastermind
 
File:YourComputer861200080.jpg|Dec 1986, Game: Mastermind
 
File:YourComputer861200081.jpg|Dec 1986, Game: Mastermind
 
File:YourComputer861200081.jpg|Dec 1986, Game: Mastermind
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File:YourComputer870100064.jpg|Jan 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870100065.jpg|Jan 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870100066.jpg|Jan 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870100067.jpg|Jan 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870100070.jpg|Jan 1987, Game: Fantasmagorical
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File:YourComputer870100071.jpg|Jan 1987, Game: Fantasmagorical
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File:YourComputer870100072.jpg|Jan 1987, Game: Fantasmagorical
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File:YourComputer870200054.jpg|Feb 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870200055.jpg|Feb 1987, Utils: Spectrum to Amstrad
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File:YourComputer870200060.jpg|Feb 1987, Game: Miner Man
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File:YourComputer870200061.jpg|Feb 1987, Game: Miner Man
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File:YourComputer870200062.jpg|Feb 1987, Game: Miner Man
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File:YourComputer870300060.jpg|Mar 1987, Game: Pinball
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File:YourComputer870300061.jpg|Mar 1987, Game: Pinball
 
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== Australian Logo ==
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== Your Computer - Australia ==
  
 
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File:Yourcomputer1992-AUST.jpg|Logo
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File:YourComp-1992-04.jpg|1992
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File:Your_Computer_Australia_Cover.png|Cover scan
 
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== Your Computer Bumper book of Programs ==
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http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Your_Computers_Bumper_book_of_Programs
  
 
== Weblinks ==
 
== Weblinks ==
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* ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourComputer/ - scanned pages on World of Spectrum
 
* ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourComputer/ - scanned pages on World of Spectrum
 
* http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/3122/Your-Computer/ - More scans from Computing History.org.uk
 
* http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/3122/Your-Computer/ - More scans from Computing History.org.uk
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[[Category:Magazines]][[Category:Type Ins]]

Latest revision as of 18:47, 22 March 2017


Your Computer was a British multi-platform magazine published monthly from 1981 to 1988 covering the range of home microcomputers along the way. Your Computer was a spin-off from the British magazine Practical Computing. In early 1987 they starting focusing on the PC and Mac markets and got rid of type-ins etc which also lost a lot of readers. Within a year the magazine closed. There was an Australian version of this magazine as well, of the same name and similarly themed (however it ran longer - from 1981 to 1997).

It contains some info about the early CPC history - for example, a CPC464 preview in the May 1984 issue (a month before the CPC464 was launched in June 1984) - which isn't found in CPC-specific magazines like Amstrad Computer User (which was launched in August 1984). Other Amstrad content such as reviews and type-ins followed and became regular. By early 1987 CPC content began to taper off.

Cover scans

CPC Articles

CPC Adverts

Your Computer CPC Type-ins

Some early CPC type-ins. Caution: Quality of the scans isn't perfect (some are printed in tiny letters, which are more or less impossible to decipher). Please upload better scans...!

Please find a number of programs from Your Computer are available through CPC-Power Archives:

http://www.cpc-power.com/cpcarchives/index.php?page=articles&num=127

Better scans are also available too.

Your Computer - Australia

Your Computer Bumper book of Programs

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Your_Computers_Bumper_book_of_Programs

Weblinks