Get ready for the holidays with the November 2025 issue of COMPUTE!’s Gazette! This massive, 100-page edition is your ultimate guide to the best of retro computing, headlined by our biggest feature of the year: the 8-Bit Buyers Guide for the Holiday Season.

The 2025 “Retro Shopper” Holiday Guide

This isn’t just a simple gift list; our “Retro Shopper” guide is a massive 11-page feature detailing the best modern hardware, replicas, and upgrades for your favorite classic systems. We provide the “what” and “where” for the retro enthusiast in your life (even if that enthusiast is you!).

The guide covers:

• Amiga: The best accelerators, core upgrades, modern storage, and new cases.
• Atari: Complete motherboard replacements, modern video mods, and essential peripherals like FujiNet.
• Commodore: New C64 systems, modern motherboard replacements, storage solutions, and essential power supplies.
• Tandy: Modern power supplies, transformative memory expansions, and solid-state storage for your CoCo and TRS-80.
• PC XT/286/486: Modern storage controllers like the XT-IDE, new-retro motherboards, and essential sound cards.
• Neo-Retro: A new generation of “retro” computers, including the MEGA65, Commander X16, and ZX Spectrum Next.

Commodore 64 Features

This issue is loaded with content for C64 fans. We take a deep dive into C64OS, exploring the features of this modern, mouse-driven graphical user interface for the breadbin. We also sit down for an exclusive interview with DrMortalWombat, the brilliant developer behind the Oscar64 C compiler for the 6502.

Plus, get your fingers ready for two huge type-in listings:

• Learn C64 BASIC: Space Lander (Part 1): The first part of a new programming series to code a functional game in BASIC.
• C64 Sprite Editor: A powerful, C128-inspired utility to ditch the graph paper and design your own stunning multicolor sprites.

Amiga Resource

Our dedicated “Amiga Resource” section investigates the stories that matter to Amiga fans.

• System Halted? We investigate the indefinite delay of the highly anticipated A1200 Maxi project and the legal battles between Hyperion and the Amiga parties that have put the project in peril.
• Amiga’s Soul: We settle the score in a technical showdown: “Before Sound Blaster, There Was Paula,” exploring how the Amiga’s revolutionary chip delivered arcade-quality sound years before the PC caught up.
• Dungeons of Daggorath Port: We talk with developer Jace Fuse about his ambitious project to port the TRS-80 classic Dungeons of Daggorath to the Amiga.
• Review: TheGebs24 gives a “Full Throttle Fun” review of the iconic Amiga racer, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.

Also In This Issue…

• Atari: Learn to program sound in Atari BASIC and write your own networked programs with our FujiNet Report.
• Commander X16: Type in the complete BASIC listing for “The Trial of Nymeris,” a new game of short-term memory.
• MEGA65: Master modern sprite programming in BASIC with Dan Sanderson’s “Sprite Attack!” tutorial.
• Lost & Found: We explore the history of a game that wasn’t—the unreleased Amiga version of “The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure”.
• Dialed Back: Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1980s with a history of casino and game BBS doors.
• And so much more! Including a new “Tandy Land” column, a review of the X-Pander 3, BASIC programming challenges, and columns on GEOS, the Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, and the Vintage Computer Festival.