The TORPET
The TORPET was a Toronto-based computer magazine directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers. Publication history. Though named for and associated with the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), the magazine was published independently of the club as a commercial enterprise with paid writers. Twenty-eight issues were produced for TPUG from November 1980 to August 1984. In 1984 "TORPET"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s owner and editor, Bruce Beach, dissociated the publication from TPUG and relaunched it as an oceanography journal, backronymming its name to "Today's Oceanographic Research Program for Education & Training". TPUG launched its own  computing journal, "TPUG Magazine", in February 1984. A 320-page anthology of "The TORPET"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s most popular articles, "The Best of The TORPET Plus More for the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20", was published in 1984 by Copp Clark Pitman. It featured type-in listings for over a thousand freeware programs, articles and cartoon strips teaching BASIC and machine language programming, memory maps, and user documentation for popular public domain software.