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El Ordenador Personal (ES)

El Ordenador Personal (The Personal Computer) was a multi-format magazine published by Ordenador Individual in Spain. It was launched in 1982 and is one of the earliest Spanish computer science magazines. They mainly focussed on serious topics related to home and professional computing. Some issues have not been scanned so there could be missing programs.

Download all programs from this magazine on one disk:


ElOrdenadorPersonal.d64

15 programs

Program Author Requirements Files Info
Melodia de Clavelitos
(Melody of Clavelitos)

Issue 2 (Mar 1982),
Pages 23-27.
Miguel Solano Gadea Unexpanded clavelitos.prg
Screenshot
Music program, plays the tune Clavelitos.

Controls:
None.
Meteoritos
(Meteors)

Issue 13 (Mar 1983),
Pages 121-122.
Felipe Heches Unexpanded meteoritos.prg
Screenshot
Vertically scrolling space game. Fly your ship through the meteor field, hitting as many meteors as you can. Your ship is invisible, and it briefly becomes visible when you move.

Controls:
X (left), V (right).
El Rombo
(The Rhombus)

Issue 14 (Apr 1983),
Pages 106-107.
Emmanuel-David Eyer Unexpanded el-rombo.prg
Screenshot
Pac-Man game. Collect the crosses before they are eaten by the diamond. Two enhanced versions were published in Issue 23: El Tragon (8K) and El Monstruo (UN).

Controls:
A (up), Z (down), , (left), . (right).
Pánico en el fondo del mar
(Panic at the bottom of the sea)

Issue 16 (Jun 1983),
Pages 89-91.
Also published in:
Issue 28 Extra (1984),
Pages 99-101.
Patrick Lenoble Unexpanded panic-fondo-mar.prg
Screenshot
Shoot the boats and helicopters from your submarine.

Controls:
Joystick.
Tic-Tac

Issue 21 (1983),
Pages 87-88.
Also published in:
Issue 28 Extra (1984),
Pages 19-20.
Raymond Saxema Super Expander+3K manecillas-se3k.prg
Screenshot
Analogue clock. Note: The program runs for a few seconds, then the screen becomes corrupt.

Controls:
Enter the time (HHMMSS).
Realizad nuevos caracteres
(Make New Characters)

Issue 22 (1984),
Pages 73-74.
Also published in:
Issue 28 Extra (1984),
Pages 85-86.
Francisco Dervaux Unexpanded nuev-caracteres.prg
Screenshot
Character designer, make your own user defined graphics.

Controls:
For each pixel, press Return to set the pixel or Space to leave it blank. The cursor moves automatically.
El Tragon
(The Guzzler)

Issue 23 (1984),
Pages 37-40.
José Vicente Gavilá 8K expansion el-tragon-8k.d64
Screenshot
Pac-Man game for 1 or 2 players. Eat the fruit while avoiding the monsters and traps. This is an enhanced version of El Rombo (Issue 14). Note: this currently only loads from disk.

Controls:
W (up), Z (down), A (left), S (right).
El Monstruo
(The Monster)

Issue 23 (1984),
Pages 37-40.
José Carlos Gutierrez Rubio Unexpanded el-monstruo.prg
Screenshot
Pac-Man game. Eat the dots while avoiding the monsters. This is an enhanced version of El Rombo (Issue 14).

Controls:
A (up), Z (down), , (left), . (right).
Combinatoria
(Combinatorics)

Issue 23 (1984),
Pages 84-85.
Jose Antonio Mañas Valle Unexpanded combinatoria.prg
Screenshot
Mathematics utility. Calculate permutations and other similar values.

Controls:
Follow on-screen prompts.
Alta Resolución
(High Resolution)

Issue 24 (1984),
Page 101.
Claude Laurent Unexpanded alta-resolucion.prg
Screenshot
Draws a hi-res picture on a 200 x 225 pixel screen.

Controls:
None.
Carrera Infernal
(Hell Race)

Issue 25 (1984),
Pages 55-61.
Felipe Henches 3K expansion car-infernal-3k.prg
Screenshot
Top down car race. Collect as much fuel as possible to reach the finishing line, while avoiding the monsters.

Controls:
I (up), M (down), J (left), K (right).
Mundo Helado
(Frozen World)

Issue 27 (1984),
Pages 43-47.
Eric Bonnet 3K expansion mundo-helado-3k.prg
Screenshot
Mr Do! game. Push ice blocks to squash the monsters, and collect the diamonds.

Controls:
W (up), Z (down), A (left), S (right), Shift+key (push block).
Los invasores
(Space Invaders)

Issue 28 Extra (1984),
Pages 47-48.
Francisco Dervaux Unexpanded space-invaders.prg
Screenshot
Shoot the aliens, and avoid the blue ship that blocks your missiles.

Controls:
Crsr-Down (left), Crsr-Right (right), Space (fire).
Caracteres inversos
(Inverted Characters)

Issue 34 (Mar 1985),
Page 89.
Marc Simonnet Unexpanded caracteres-inv.prg
Screenshot
Turns the font upside down.

Controls:
None.
Pescar la línea
(Fish Line)

Issue 34 (Mar 1985),
Page 89.
Bernard Petrisot Unexpanded pescar-la-linea.prg
Screenshot
Displays some nested boxes using multicolour graphics.

Controls:
None.

Notes

  1. The following programs are missing from this magazine. If anybody has working copies then please contact me.
    1. Dragones by Marc Rossi (Issue 20) [I couldn't get this working, some lines are difficult/impossible to read]
  2. There are alternative/modified versions of the following programs:
    1. Alta Resolución (Issue 24, 1984) : a slightly different version was published as Haute resolution (L'Ordinateur Individuel, 83-07).
    2. Caracteres inversos (Issue 34, Mar 1985) : this was also published as Janus (L'Ordinateur Individuel, 84-12).
    3. El Rombo (Issue 14, Apr 1983) : modified versions were published as Le Petit-Fils de Minos (Hebdogiciel, 84-07-27) and Pingouin (Hebdogiciel, 84-10-05).
    4. Los invasores (Issue 28 Extra, 1984) : a slightly different version was published as Les envahisseurs sont de retour (L'Ordinateur Individuel, 83-06).
    5. Pánico en el fondo del mar (Issue 16, Jun 1983) : a slightly different version was published as Panique au fond des mers (L'Ordinateur Individuel, 83-05). A modified version was published as Test (Commodore Magazine, 84-06).
    6. Tic-Tac (Issue 21, 1983) : a slightly different version was published as Tic-Tac (L'Ordinateur Individuel, 83-11).

With thanks to Internet Archive for scanning this magazine.

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