Wholeheartedly agree. That's why I like to keep a stash of old Compute! and AmigaWorld's nearby :-)
Compute! rocked. Today's kids nary have anything like it. Some programming rags exist, but they are highly specialised and do not have the personality (games, apps, etc.) that programming on an Atari, Commodore or TI (to name a few) had.
"Computing" (if that's what you want to call it) today pales in comparison. But then again, so does most everything else. Freedom from choice is what you want and freedom from choice is what we got ;-)
I'm member of a computer hobby club. They got a monthly magazine too, and it got many similarities with the old magazines (well, I got quite a lot of old German computer magazines).
Maybe you should try that
I never regretted it
