Creative Computing
Scope and Contents
This is a partial collection of Creative Computing from 1977 onward, along with both known issues of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games.
The library's copy of Volume 6 (1980) was sold as a complete set of back-issues, distributed in a Creative Computing-branded binder.
Dates
- Publication: 1974–1985
Creator
- Ahl Computing, Inc (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
45 Magazines
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Creative Computing was an early computing magazine founded by David H. Ahl that covered, as the name implies, creative and hobbyist uses of computers. The magazine emphasized accessible and educational computer programs rather than the more technical or hardware-focused coverage in similar magazines. Ahl self-published the magazine until around June 1982, when it was acquired by Ziff Davis, although Ahl continued to serve as editor until the magazine was discontinued at the end of 1985.
Creative Computing also included coverage of computer games, going as far as publishing a short-lived spinoff magazine, Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games, which exclusively covered games.
General
Held:
- Volume 3, Numbers 2–4
- Volume 4, Numbers 2–3, 6
- Volume 5, Numbers 1–6
- Volume 6, Numbers 1–12
- Volume 7, Number 12
- Volume 8, Numbers 2, 4
- Volume 9, Numbers 7, 9–10
- Volume 10, Numbers 8–9
- Volume 11, Numbers 1–5, 7–12
- Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games:
- Volume 1, Numbers 1–2
Known Missing:
- Volume 1, Numbers 1–6 (November/December 1974 – November/December 1975)
- Volume 2, Numbers 1–6 (January/February – November/December 1976)
- Volume 3, Number 1 (January/February 1977)
- Volume 3, Numbers 5–6 (September/October – November/December 1977)
- Volume 4, Number 1 (January/February 1978)
- Volume 4, Numbers 4–5 (July/August – September/October 1978)
- Volume 5, Numbers 7–12 (July–December 1979)
- Volume 7, Numbers 1–11 (January-November 1981)
- Volume 8, Numbers 1, 3, 5–12 (January, March, May–December 1982)
- Volume 9, Numbers 1–6, 8, 11–12 (January–June, August, November–December 1983)
- Volume 10, Numbers 1–7, 10–12 (January–July, October–December 1984)
- Volume 11, Number 6 (June 1985)
Creator
- Ahl Computing, Inc (Publisher, Organization)
- Ziff Davis, Inc (Owner, Organization)
- David H. Ahl (Editor, Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository