Commodore Disk User

Commodore Disk User

Commodore Disk User issue 1, November/December 1987
Former editors	Stuart Cooke Paul Eves
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	November 1987
Final issue Number	October 1991 36
Company	Argus Specialist Publications Alphavite Publications
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
ISSN	0953-0614

Commodore Disk User, also referred to as CDU, was a magazine for the Commodore range of computers, including the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and Commodore Plus/4. Each issue came with a cover mounted disk containing software.

History

Cover mounted Disk containing "£30 worth of software"

It was published by the same company that published the Your Commodore magazine and was aimed at Commodore users that had a 1541 disk drive and did not want to have to type in program listings. It also meant that larger programs could be included with the magazine. Initially, an issue of the magazine was published every two months but after two years, it was changed to being published every month.

The magazine survived up until the end of 1991; the last issue (number 36) cover dated October 1991. Copies were scanned into Archive.org in 2011.

Issues

1

Volume 1 Number 1 available at Archive.org

Published: November/December 1987

Contents

• Computer Scrabble
• The Yanks are Coming
• Keep your Drive Alive by Eric Doyle
• Slipped Disks by Norman Doyle
• Comics by Gordon Hamlett
• Mending Your Disks by Burghard-Henry Lehmann
• Directory Designer by Burghard-Henry Lehmann
• Text Ehancer by Steven Hammond
• Mobster by Richard Beaven
• 3 into 1 Plus by Tony Crowther
• Ski Runby Ting Zwei Kuei
• Sprite Printer by Gary Mayhew
• Compunet Culture by David Bain
• Games Reviews
• Disk Dungeons by Grontol the Mad

2

Volume 1 Number 2 at Archive.org

Published: January/February 1988

Contents

• Shoot 'em up Construction Kit by Norman Doyle
• Reviews
• Short but Sweet
• Strategic Simulations by Tony Hetherington
• Disk Librarian by Burghard-Henry Lehmann
• Disk Mate by Malcom Gallon
• Noluxe Paint by Ludo Decock
• Text Cracker by Kent Stelfox
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• Scroll Your Own by Norman Doyle
• Definitive Programming by Norman Doyle
• Linking with MicroNet by Steve Gold
• MicroNet Programs

3

Volume 1 Number 3 at Archive.org

Published: March/April 1988

Contents

• Reviews
• Super-tact by R Kyme-Wright
• Chaos in Space by Paul Williams
• Software over the Rainbow by Norman Doyle
• C-Zap by Paul Williams
• Basic+ by Graeme Gayler
• Tape Archive by Les Allen
• Link and Crunch by Tony Crowther
• Psymon by Gary Saunders
• Disk Librarian II by Burghard-Henry Lehmann
• C128 Auto-boot by Mahmood Hassan Merchant
• Level-headed thoughts by Norman Doyle
• Monitoring Monitors by Norman Doyle
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• Epyx by Tony Hetherington
• Professional Programming by Fin Fahey

4

Volume 1 Number 4 at Archive.org

Published May/June 1988

• Four Speed Cartridges by Eric Doyle
• Reviews
• Drumsynth by Andrew D Leeder
• C128 Pull-down Menus
• Tokeniser by P F Hayes
• Computer Aided Design by Roger Peachey
• Basic Compactor by Fin Fahey
• Santolus by George Allan
• Atlantis by B N Lewis
• ROMantic Stories by Norman Doyle
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• Inside Basic by Fin Fahey
• The Height of Resolution by Gordon Davis
• Strategic Studies by Tony Hetherington

5

Volume 1 Number 5 at Archive.org

Published: July/August 1988

• Reviews
• Trilogic b y The Experts
• Disk Toolbox by Paul Eves
• Relocator by Fin Fahey
• 3D Breakout by Malcon Gallon
• Mind Games by Homer A Perry
• Peggy 128
• Orrey by David Cook
• Message Construction Kit by Gary Saunders
• Getting your Lines Right by Gordon Davis
• Hidden Secrets of the 6510 by Al Dukes
• Disk Dungeons
• MUD
• Accolade Action by Tony Hetherington
• Mapping the Machine by Jeremy Cornell

6

Volume 1 Number 6 at Archive.org

Published: September/October 1988

• Reviews
• Scorpion by eslie Wigmore
• Addit by David Butcher
• Colour Match by David Butcher
• Mini Spread 128 by Kevin Blight
• Starburst by Duncan Kershaw
• Escape! by R Martin and W Black
• Score Keeper by J B Kinley
• Location Finder by Gordon Davis
• Fractal Frolics by D G WIlkinson
• Which Assembler? by Gordon Davis
• Bulletin Boards by Mary Branscombe
• US Gold by Tony Hetherington
• High Speed Graphics by Allen Webb
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• Bytes dog Man by Eric Doyle

7

Volume 2 Number 1 at Archive.org

Published: November/December 1988

• Reviews
• Drive Doctor by Eric Doyle
• Warp Speed by Gordon Davis
• CDU Forth by R Lincoln
• Texted by Fergal Moane
• Extractor by Neil Higgins
• Windows 64 by Seb Reeve
• ZMON by Nevile Duguid
• Cribbage Master by Paul Schofield
• Mini Spread 128 by Kevin Blight
• Oblivion! by Martin Jones
• Bumper Sticker Maker by Myron Patch
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• The Games - Winter Edition by Tony Hetherington
• Disk Commands by S Gerton
• High Speed Graphics by Allen Webb

8

Volume 2 Number 2

Published: January/February 1989

• Vindicator by GH
• Captain Blood by Tony Hetherington
• The Games - Summer Edition by Tony Hetherington
• Disk Turbo by Dave Taylor
• Blastball by S Patrick and S Maloney
• Colour Bind by Mark Mainwood
• Border Sprite by Jason Finch
• Data Maker by Sanjeev J Massey
• Life
• Menu Maker by Nick Gregory
• Microdot by Jim Blackler
• Spots by Keith Suddick
• Easy Scroller by Mario Annetta
• Runaway by Christopher Hester
• CDU Forth by R LIncoln
• Dungeons and Dragons by Gordon Hamlett
• ZMON by Neville Duguid
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hamlett
• High Speed Graphics by Allen Webb
• Logic by Neil Higgins

10

Volume 2 Number 3 at Archive.org

Published: March/April 1988

• Reviews
• Darts by Michael Ware
• CDU Paint by Tony Crowther
• Devaid by Paul Eves
• Bazair
• Araknifoe by Stephen Chance
• Graphics Primer 128 by Nick Gregory
• Championship Dominoes by Athol McEwan
• More Hidden Secrets of the 6510 by Al Dukes
• High Speed Graphics by Allen Webb
• Phantom
• Six Drives by Kerry Fowler
• Deciphering Code by Eric Doyle
• Disk Dungeons by Gordon Hameltt
• Sector Secrets by Kerry Fowler