Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T.
replyHuge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.
I would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old.
replyI had dreams of someday meeting “Dr. Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.
Anyone remember "Compute!"? I still have (mostly) fond memories of typing in games in Basic.
replyActually, bugs in those listings were my first bug-hunts as a kid.
Compute!, Dr. Dobb’s, Kilobaud Microcomputing, Byte. Good magazines that are missed.
replyI finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.
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