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Gryzor

Found this funny:

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For more erm, interesting covers: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/racunari-cover-girls/

ZorrO

The word računari means computers in Yugoslavian languages. 
Type in Google "racunari magazine" and you'll see they had a model on every cover.
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Gryzor

Yes, that was the article :D

ZorrO

Whole scan PDF low quality, and CBZ (jpg every page inside), good quality.
https://archive.org/details/Racunari_Magazine_1986_01  <- CPC inside
https://archive.org/details/Racunari_Magazine_1986_10  <- PC 1512
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ZorrO

The PDF is OCR-enabled, and you can select text and translate it with Google Translate. It recognizes text as Bosnian. The first issue is an article about how interrupts work and how to switch ROMs. Even after translating it, I'm not smart enough to understand it. 
The second issue only contains news about new C64c, ZX+2, and PC1512 computers, as well as an article about using inline in machine code. When I saw the assembler mnemonics, I gave up reading. There's also a mention of games for Amstrads. 
Perhaps there would be something more interesting in other issues without Amstrads on the cover, but I don't feel like looking. I have better things to do. :)
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MaV

Trust Google translate to spout bullshit.
The magazine is in Serbian. There are little differences between these "dialects" as I'd call it (but that would put us on the slippery slope of politics on the Balkans), and all of them can understand each other easily. People usually avoid stating the language by calling it "naš", our (language). And I can usually buy magazines from every part in the other parts of former Yugoslavia.

Anyway, on the title "mesečno" would be written (and pronounced) "mjesečno" in Bosnia and Croatia. In Croatia you'd say "računalo", plural "računala", in Serbia it is "računar", plural "računari". The latter is the title of the magazine.

They livened up the pages of a dry computer magazine in this way in a typical Slavic manner, I'd say.

BTW, "Amstradov" means "of the Amstrad" or closer to the original adjective "Amstradian".
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ZorrO

If you bought this magazine, maybe you know which issue had something about Amstrads.
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MaV

Unfortunately, I don't know. I started buying those much later when Amstrad was already out of the picture.  :(
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Prodatron

Seems they were quite Commodore fans, as they also used the originally misspelled term "Kernal" for the CPC's internal operating system.

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MaV

Quote from: Prodatron on Today at 13:11"Kernal"
That's not likely from the C64, more by accident. Serbian tries to convert the spelling of foreign words to their own. So they like to write it exactly how it is pronounced (like in "hakerski" with a "k" instead of a "ck"). It's likely that the first contact with the word "kernel" was through the C64, but once the spelling was established they stuck to it, not because they liked the C64 so much, more to remain consistent. But there could be other reasons for this.

Take the word "digitajzer" on the page for example. The correct pronunciation for the word in Serbian would be "didžitajzer". It seems that the first contact with this word happened through people who just happened to pronounce the letter it wrongly as "g" like in good.

Croatian doesn't do this however, so foreign words are written just like in their original language, which presents them with other problems like how should they handle languages with other scripts. Besides, if the person reading this word in Croatian has no clue about the other language's orthography and pronunciation system, they would not know how to pronounce it.
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