computesgazette.com/ COMPUTE!'s Gazette — October 2026 Digital Edition is out the door! Every collector has a ghost story. This month, we checked. Our cover story, The Machine That Never Died, goes looking for the body: for forty-five years everyone knew that one line of BASIC could kill a Commodore PET. We traced the legend from Commodore's own engineers through forty years of magazines, manuals, and folklore to find out what software can and can't actually do to 8-bit hardware. Also in this issue: Sleuth 64 — an all-BASIC murder mystery type-in for the Commodore 64, with a new killer every game based off the MS-DOS Classic Type-In Time Machine — Bryon Thur's new monthly column debuts with Crossroads from the December 1987 Gazette MLX32 Version 1.1 — a reader-found bug, diagnosed and fixed, with the update on this month's disk Black Cave reviewed — Marcus Albers on Victor Castro's new C64 game The business cards are back — ten vendors in our back-page directory, now a regular feature Gazette Clubs — our pilot user groups are launching in Phoenix, Houston, and Cleveland/Akron. Live nearby? Write to [email protected] Plus Back to BASIC Part 6, Dialed Back, MEGA65 Digest, the FujiNet Report, Micro Missions, and Letters — 100 pages. It's never too late to subscribe! New subscriptions begin with the November printed edition, and every new subscriber gets the October digital edition free. Contents subject to change. #Commodore64 #CommodorePET #RetroComputing #TRS80 #Atari8Bit #Amiga #ComputesGazette