Thursday, 21 August 2025

Your 64 (UK, 1984-1985)

Your 64 was a British magazine dedicated to Commodore computers, published by Sportscene Specialist Press. The magazine was initially called Your 64 & VIC 20, then it was renamed Your 64 from issue 7 (Mar 1985) onwards. It started as a bi-monthly magazine in April 1984, and turned monthly with issue 6 (Feb 1985). A total of 14 issues were published, then it was incorporated into Argus Specialist Publications' Your Commodore magazine. The editors were Bruce Sawford (issue 1), Surya (issues 2-7), Roger Munford (issues 8-10), Roger Andout (issue 11) and Alison Hjul (issues 12-14).

 


First issue, for example, contained an in-depth review of the new SX-64 and had some great technical articles such as Scratchpad, which described how to make your own reset switch on a C64. It also had a smallish games section and a couple of programs to type in. 

Same type of contents and articles about programming in machine code and other interesting reports appeared in every one of Your 64 magazine, with some variations from one to another.

The title lasted 14 issues, until it was joined into forementioned Your Commodore. This one will be considered in a next future for a new post here in my blog, due to its listings, specially games, of a good quality.

Talking about programs to be typed, all 14 issues contained at least two or three BASIC listings with parts or a lot of machine code to copy in your Commodore home-computer, mostly for C64 one. To make it easier, most of programs listings from the magazine was preserved and archived in few Commodore-dedicated web archives: Gamebase 64 and its Paradro.id mirror (for downloading them) and VIC-20 Listings. Also, only Commodore 64 games can be found at C64.cz, too...


Your 64 Programs Listings per issue, from #01 to #14:

 

I. Title                  System        Author(s)               Pages
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1  Firing-Up Basic        Commodore 64  Phil Cornes, Tony Cross 17-20
   Island Blitz           Commodore 64  Mark Greenshields       69-70
   Maze                   Commodore 64  Mark Greenshields       75-76
   Maze                   VIC-20 (3K)   Mark Greenshields       76-78

2  Sprite Copier          Commodore 64  Mitchell Peacock        21
   Typewriter             Commodore 64  D. J. Peacock           23
   New Resolutions I      Commodore 64  Keith Bowden            24-28
   Energy Field           Commodore 64  David A. Ponting        61-67
   Tanx                   Commodore 64  David A. Ponting        67-70

3  New Resolutions II     Commodore 64  Keith Bowden            55-57
   Alarm Clock            Commodore 64  Andrew P. Bennett       59-60
   Joystick Jam           Commodore 64  Rob Christer            63-77

4  Multicolour Mode       Commodore 64  ?                       62-64
   Frogger                Commodore 64  Steve Patrick           67-70
   Exocet                 VIC-20 (3K)   David A. Ponting        70-77

5  Monitor 64 (Dis/Ass)   Commodore 64  Adam Harrison           65-75
   Xmas                   Commodore 64  Clive Emberey           76-83
   Snake                  Commodore 64  Clive Emberey           83-85
   Trains                 Commodore 64  Clive Emberey           85-86

6  Scrolling Windows      Commodore 64  Brian Rushby            65-66
   Alien Attack           Commodore 64  Brian & Gary Rushby     75-77
   Slider                 Commodore 64  Rod Blunt               77-83

7  Scroll Up/Left/Right   Commodore 64  Brian Rusby             53-54
   Medium-Resol. Plotting Commodore 64  Mark Hart               56-59
   Y64 Checksum           Commodore 64  Y64 Staff               61
   Threeway (3D OXO)      Commodore 64  Rod Blunt               62-70

8  Musical Matters        Commodore 64  Keith Bowden            19-23
   3-D Maze               Commodore 64  Rod Blunt               50-60

9  The Scribe (I)         Commodore 64  Dougie Bern             50-58

10 Y64 Educat-a-base      Commodore 64  Bernie Douglas          37-38
   The Scribe (& II)      Commodore 64  Dougie Bern             49-58

11 Planets                Commodore 64  Y64 Mega-Basic          35
   Movie Time             Commodore 64  Dougie Bern             36-38
   Squeezy                Commodore 64  Frank G. Tout           56-59

12 Plotting in the C64    Commodore 64  Steve Colwill           24-27
   Hi-Res Dump            Commodore 64  Roger Peachey           38-39
   Trace                  Commodore 64  John Ireland            51-55

13 Drawing with the C64   Commodore 64  Steve Colwill           24-27
   Mad Basic              Commodore 64  Max Phillips            30
   Hot Dog                Commodore 64  Frank G. Tout           50-54

14 (LAST ISSUE)

   Self Defence           Commodore 64  Dougie Bern             26-29
   Cruncher               Commodore 64  D. Talbot               34
   Quick Directory        Commodore 64  William Fong            34
   Brill Characters       Commodore 64  Martyn Lee, Nick Taylor 34-35
   Sprite Editor          Commodore 128 A. J. Gould             53-55


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Your 64 (UK, 1984-1985)

Your 64 was a British magazine dedicated to Commodore computers, published by Sportscene Specialist Press . The magazine was initially call...