Minor Publications

SPI published a number of short-lived magazines over the years. Mostly, these were black-and-white publications printed on "bedsheets" -- large 2' x 3' sheets of paper, folded but uncut and unbound. The S & T supplement mostly provided game variants, strategy articles, and so on, and was a precursor to Moves magazine. Game Design talked mainly about the nuts and bolts of SPI's design efforts. The S & T guide consisted of listings and short reviews of a variety of material. DataBus was devoted to computer games at a time when they didn't exist, save for a few games running on academic computers; SPI staff were interested in the subject.

S & T SUPPLEMENT

Issues 1 through 6 were 8 1/2" x 11" sheets; issues 7 and on were "bedsheets".

#1/#20A.

Dec-Jan 69/70. Air Power & Chivalry (Melvyn Buchner); Axis Troop Arrivals (Stalingrad Variant) (W.K. Mansfield); Fundamental Probability (Jared Johnson); Pass in Review (Jim Dunnigan); True Hidden Search for Naval Games (Ed Turner & Ed Mohrmann); Waffen SS (Stephen Patrick). Numbered after the issue of S & T it followed.

#2/#21A.

12/69. Battle of Britain Controversy (Lou Zocchi); Comments on Module Blitzkrieg (Russel Reddoch); Games in Review (Jared Johnson); The Greek Campaign - 1941 (John Michalski); Low-Cost Miniatures (David Lindsay); Pass in Review (John Kato); Terrain for Miniatures (Ed Mohrmann); A Three-Sided Battle (Jim Dunnigan); Tips for Players (Omar DeWitt).

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6/70. The Eastern Front in 1914 (Steven Hart); Roman Military Institutions (Jim Dunnigan); Rules for Civil War Miniatures (John Greer); Stalingrad - Australian Style (John Edwards); Strategy I (Richard Bauer).

4.

8/70. Ancient Rome (John Greer); Cruiser Action of Cape Spada (Al Nofi); Guerilla Warfare in Blitzkrieg (Meredith Adkins); Leipzig Revised (Steve Stomi); More Thoughts on Strategy I (Richard Bauer); 1914 PBM - Multiple Commands (Bruce Harper); Nuclear Weapons in Blitzkrieg (Roy Eastern); Tactical Excersize (John Greer); Tips for Gamers (Frederick Wadley).

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10/70. A-H Games - Luck or Skill? (Bernardo Figueredo); Blitzkrieg Arms Race Variation (Martin Campion); Leipzig Revised (Patrick Nix); Ostkrieg (Mark Teehan); Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 1941-44 Part 1 (Stephen Tang); Wargaming Theory (D.J. Covostes).

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12/70. Mathematics in Wargame Design (Thomas Towler); Ostkrieg Part 2 (Mark Teehan); Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 1941-44, Conclusion (Stephen Tang); S&T Index (Stephen Patrick).

7.

2/71. Barbarossa Clarified (Stephen Tang); Blitzkrieg Varient: 1 (sic) (David Movein); Blitzkrieg Varient 2 (sic) (David Movein); Casualty Causation in World War I: 1914 (Jim Dunnigan); Historical Accuracy in Blitzkrieg (Matthew Buynoski); Ostkrieg: Conclusion (Mark Teehan); Victory Conditions in Crete (no author listed).

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4/71. Airpower in Miniatures (Jay Richrdson); Flight of the Goeben Revisited (Jay Richardson); Jutland with a Battleboard (Robert Keith); Operation Orders (Stephen Patrick); Zero Sum Game Theory (Paul Dubois).

9.

6/71. An Exhortation (no author listed); Battle of the Punta Areganos (Al Nofi); Book Reviews (Fred Vietmeyer); "Playabilized" Bastogne (Leo House); The Scenarios for TAC 13 (Centurion) (Stephen Patrick); Tanennberg - A Russian Plan (Bruce Harper).

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9/71. Airpower in Miniatures Addendum (Jay Richardson); Introduction to Advanced Napoleonics (Fred Vietmeyer); Korea (Stan Fishman); A Line-of-Sight Method in Hexagonal Grids (Paul Dubois); Panzerblitz Variants (Steven List); Waffen SS Addendum (Stephen Patrick).

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10/71. Dark Ages Revisited (Stephen B. Patrick); Campaign Analysis ... North Africa 1940-42; the British Army; a British soldier comments (LTC Henry A. Radice); Parachuting in Miniatures (Jay Richardson); The Shape of Things to Come; Last Minute Announcement.

GAME DESIGN

1.

1/71. A-H Review (Omar Dewitt); Data Module (Stephen Patrick); Designer's Notes (Jim Dunnigan); TAC 14 Design Notes (Al Nofi); TSG Review (Jim Dunnigan).

2.

3/71. Conflict Analysis: Petrograd in 1917 (Arnold Hendrick); Designer's Notes (Jim Dunnigan).

3.

5/71. Designer's Notes (Jim Dunnigan); Engineers in Simulations (Stephen Patrick); Getting into TAC 13 & 14 (Al Nofi & Arnold Hendrick); TSG Review (Jim Dunnigan).

4.

8/71. Bulge (Omar DeWitt); Deployment: A Critique (Martin Campion); Designer's Notes (Jim Dunnigan); The Mathematical Derivation of a Combat Table (richard Bauer).

5.

11/71. Armor in Simulation Games (Stephen Patrick); Designer's Notes (Jim Dunnigan); Game Preview: TAC 16, The Dark Ages (Stephen Patrick); Some Notes of the Battle of the Bulge (Warren Jersey).

DataBus

All issues edited by Bob Felice.

1.

(Vol 1 Nr 1 Jan/Feb 1974) Welcome to the DataBus...; What's Going On Out There?; Techniques: The Calculation of Range on a Hexagonal Mapsheet (Dean W. Dickerhoof); Database; Let's Design a Computerized Wargame; Feedback.

2.

Welcome back...; Finances; Who Are We; Description of SPI computer environment; How to Become Rich and Famous by Writing for DataBus; Program Exchange; Description of SciFi Game Computer Space War (game design: Bob Felice, development: Stephen Bettum, Kip Allen, Tom Walczyk & Hank Zucker); Epilogue; Feedback.

3.

DataBus 3 is with us at last...; Guest Comment (Alister Macintyre); Feedback Results; Simulation/Gaming/News (Alister Macintyre); 101 Basic Computer games (William J. Denholm III); Some Comments on the SPI Range System (Charles H. Fisher); 60 degree Range System (Stephen T. MacGregor); 'Natural' Hex Numbers (Thomas P. Ross, Jr.); Simultaneous Non-Hex Range Solution (James T. Turner, Jr.); Mapboard Representation (Robert Metzger); Epilog; New Editorial Policy; Feedback.

4.

An apology; From a Paper Entitled Wargames and the Computer (Allan C. Torgerson); ComputerPanzer: Design and Analysis; Hunt the Wumbus (Eric Haines); Techniques: Sines and Cosines for the Masses; Creative Computing (David H. Ahl); Epilogue; Feedback.

5.

DataBus 4 was late...; Interview with Jim Dunnigan; Module: The HP 65; Nomograph Combat Results Part 1 (Chris Crawford -- yea verily, the master himself); Program Exchange: SciFi game written in BASIC (Dean Wright); Epilog.

6.

This will be the last of DataBus; Nomograph Combat Results Part 1 (Chris Crawford); The Gilmer Papers (John Gilmer).

S & T GUIDE

1.

8/71. Games (Martin Campion) (reviews of innumerable games).

2.

10/71. Publications & Periodicals (George Phillies); Games (Martin Campion).

SPI Educational Newsletter

9/77.

1.

11/77. Publisher's Note (Jim Dunnigan); What We Need (Martin C. Campion); Wargames at Kansas State University (Jacob W. Kipp); The N.A.S.A.C.A. (uncredited); The End of Wargaming at MacAuley High School? (Ted Monsour).

2.

4/78 Publisher's Note (Jim Dunnigan); Editor's Note (Martin C. Campion); Simulations at KSCP/PSU (James B. Schick); Teaching Modern Far East (Especially Indochina) With Wargames (Paul S. Hanna).

S & T STAFF NEWSLETTER

I have no information on the content of several issues of the Staff Newsletter. If you do, please help.

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4/70. No information.

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6/20/70. Edited by Al Nofi. Two Sides of one sheet 8.5 x 11, photo copied. It deals with getting S&T on a regular schedule, noting that issue 21 lagged too far behind 20 but that 22 looks likely to be on time. It calls for good material and for ideas for articles lists rates as $2.50 per page per 1000 subs or $5.00 per 1000 words which ever is less, asking for game ideas, variants and books reviews. It has the expected line up of the next six issues, some well off the mark--Issue 28 was to have an Anschluss article and game, not Dark Ages and Lost Battles.

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8/20/70. Edited by Al Nofi. Two pages, the first on S&T letter head and printed double sided, 8.5 x 11. It reminds that S&T is constantly in need of historical material, games rules and ideas, miniatures material, book reviews and any thing "we" feel will interest the readers or which the readership expresses interest. It reminds that the readership has expressed interest in O/B material, weapons data, organizational information ect, in addition to ordinary historical narrative. It again gives the payment rates and adds that a game will get $25 per 1000 subscribers plus certain contractual residuals. It calls for multiple book reviews on an single topic, i.e., France 1940, Russia 1941, France 1914. It states that the S&T supplement is preparing a satirical special issue to be called TRAGEDY AND TACTIX and calls for appropriate materials. Again, the tentative schedule for S&Ts to come: 23-28.

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20/10/70. Edited by Al Nofi. A single sheet of 8.5 x 11 S&T letterhead double sided. The payment section now includes the reward of seeing your name in print in addition to the money. This one is mostly a list of 13 do's and dont's (e.g., good grammar counts as well as spelling.) The agazine schedule is a hand drawn chart for issues 24 - 29

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12/70. Edited by John Young. Two sheets of 8.5 x 11, both double sided with the first on S&T letterhead. This issue is devoted to S&T payment, and you Federal taxes. The second sheet is a sample 1040 for John Doe who writes articles for magazines.

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3/71. Single sheet of 8.5 x 11 letter head. It is mostly more info on how to submit articles, TYPED, double spaced, proofread copy etc. Magazine schedule is for issues 27 - 32.

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5/71. No information.

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7/71. No information.

Others

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Educational Simulations Newsletter

3/81.