_{Cover of the January 1986 issue of RUN}

RUN primarily covered the Commodore 64/128 though it covered the VIC-20 early in its life and the Plus/4 and C-16 for about 5 minutes. The January 1986 issue includes:

Features

• Making The Video Connection - A tutorial for enhancing your VHS videos with titles, special effects and more from your Commodore 64. Some of the software used here includes Designer's Pencil (Activision), The Paint Shop (Broderbund), and Graphics Basic (HesWare).


• Commodore Carousel - Using your commodore to control a slide projector. Conceptually, this could be used for educational purposes to display images at appropriate times in combination with other software.


• The Creative Computer - How one person uses their VIC-20 as a television title generator, graphics design, speech synthesis, word processor, and music synthesizer.


• Pulsing Pictures - A type-in low resolution keyboard graphics animation program.


• Telecommunications...BRS/After Dark and The Knowledge Index - An overview of two online information retrieval services. These services let you search for information in categories such as science and medicine, business and finance, reference, education, and more. They basically provide access to various databases with bibliographic data. You paid by the minute or by the hour for access.

_{Table of Contents from the January 1986 issue of RUN}

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Departments

• RUNning Ruminations - Editorial on recent changes in the telecommunications field.


• Magic - Short programming tricks including a Christmas card, a trick to fly through walls in Zaxxon, an undelete utility, and more.


• Software Gallery - Reviews of White Lighting (a Forth based graphics development system), Winter Games (one of my favorites), Stunt Flyer, 1541 Disk Drive Alignment Program, Project: Space Station, The Original Boston Computer Diet, and Success with Alegbra Series.


• The Resource Center - A new column that focuses on Commodore computers in education.


• Commodore Clinic - Questions answered related to Passport's MIDI interface, 16-bit processors on an 8-bit bus, SX-64, repairs, using the MSD dual disk drive with the Commodore 128, and more.


Hardware Gallery - A look at new hardware including a cartridge expander from Navarone Industries and HomeWriter 10 dot-matrix printer from Epson,

_{Back cover of the January 1986 issue of RUN}

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