Table of Contents|   | 
| Foreground |   | 
| Solving Soma Cube and Polyomino Puzzles | 26 | 
| Douglas A. Macdonald | 
| Programming Strategies in the Game of Reversi | 66 | 
| Peter B. Maggs | 
| A Spacecraft Simulator | 104 | 
| Gary Sivak | 
| The National Micropastime | 113 | 
| Joseph J. Roehrig | 
| Writing Animated Computer Games | 152 | 
| Tony Estep | 
| Build a Simple Digital Oscilloscope | 222 | 
| Frank DeCaro | 
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| Background |   | 
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: The Intel 8086 | 14 | 
| Steve Ciarcia | 
| Alpha-Beta Pruning | 84 | 
| Get your shears out, and get ready to cut back your game trees, thereby saving both space and time. |  
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| W. Douglas Maurer | 
| Interfacing the PET to a Line Printer | 98 | 
| P. K. Govind | 
| Stack It Up | 140 | 
| Charlton H. Allen | 
| Five Useful Programs for the SC/MP | 172 | 
| Charles A. Kapps | 
| The Cherry Pro Keyboard | 232 | 
| Dan S. Parker | 
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| Nucleus |   | 
| Editorial: Is Pseudoscience Done by Pseudo-Computerscience? | 6 | 
| Carl Helmers | 
| Letters | 12 | 
| Programming Quickies | 56, 192 | 
BASIC Game: GOBANG
 Shape Table Conversion for the Apple II
 Keyboard Input Software for the Z80 |  
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| BYTE News | 81 | 
Home Bus Standard Being Developed
 TI Microcomputer Picture in Transition
 AT&T Testing Home Information Systems
 Heath Aquired by Zenith
 8-inch Winchester Disk Market Still Trying to Get Off the Ground
 Computerized Portable Home Entertainment Center Shown
 Look It Up in the Data Dictionary
 IEEE-488 Bust Interfacing Simplified
 Silicon Valley-II Developing
 GTE Takes on Viewdata
 Dual-Sided Floppies Still in Short Supply
 FCC Completes Radio Frequency Radiation Tests
 8080 Still Going Strong |  
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| Sol Libes | 
| Technical Forum: A Proposed Graphics Software Standard, Part 1 | 196 | 
| Vincent C. Jones | 
| Book Reviews | 220 | 
8080/8085: Assembly Language Programming
 Technical Aspects of Data Communications |  
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| Bruce R. Evans, Phil Hughes | 
| BYTE's Bugs | 221 | 
| Broken Text at Quest of July 1979 BYTE |  
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| Event Queue | 228 | 
| Clubs and Newsletters | 236 | 
| Desk Top Wonders | 244 | 
Extended Multiplication with the TI-58
 Calculator Airborne Navigation |  
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| Michael E. Manwaring, L. J. Kuhns | 
| Languages Forum: SNOBOL Commentary | 248 | 
| Jonathan Sachs | 
| What's New? | 249 | 
| Unclassified Ads | 295 | 
| Reader Service, BOMB | 296 |