Volume 4 of Softalk Magazine was published September 1983 through August 1984, chronicling a pivotal year in Apple microcomputing. In total, 3,028 pages of information-rich content was published in the magazine's fourth and final year of publication.
Exec BPI: Lisa’s First Abacus. Apple Soft Brushes for Double Hi-Res. Lisa: Up Close and Personal (AKA Lisa Speeds to the Top on the cover). Learning To Type, Uniquely. Apples in Space — For the Masses. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Beagle Bros: It’s a Dog's Life. Who Will Win the Videotex Game? Backtalk. Debut: The Graphics Page. Hardtalk: Printing Out Has Its Epson Downs. Debut: Keys to the World. Observing Astronomical Apples. IInd Grade Chats: Help! It’s Another Kit! From Slow Tickers to Fast News: A Visit with Dow Jones. A Spooler for the Apple III: Serious Work. DOS Filing Made Easy. Newspeak. Storytalk: "Arcade Man". Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Avant-Garde Creations: The Dynamic Zone. The Public Domain of CP/M Software. Adventures with WPL. The Crime-Fighting Apple (AKA Detective Story on the cover). The $64K Question — Are You Hip to Computerese? Backtalk. DOS Files, Part Two: Filing Made Easy. Taking It to the Streets. Hardtalk: An Evening with Remarkable Characters. Making Software Fit the Company — The Custom Connection. Getting To Know Your Stocks. Newspeak. Storytalk: In the Forest of the Night. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Hayden Software: From Sargon to Sixteen Bits. Welcome to Art Linkletter’s Apple Party! Hardtalk: Boxing the Bugaboos. Stocking Stutters - The Fourth Annual Softalk Holiday Gift Guide. Apples Loom over the Weaving World. Newspeak. Storytalk: “M.A.C. Gate: Fat Men Can Not Jump down Chimneys”. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Learning Company: Booting Up Kids’ Minds. It’s New and Improved and Never Needs Winding: Apple III Plus. Vote! For 1983’s Most Popular Program. New Apple DOS Isn’t Strictly for the Pros. Teachers Teaching Teachers. Back in the Old Pascal Patch. Backtalk: The Wizard and Princess of Coarsegold; Apple’s Education Foundation Takes a New Tack. The Futurological Congress: Peering Cautiously Forward (a Month or Two) (AKA Apple Leaders Preview 1984 on the cover). TV Programmer On Top Down Under. The Amazing Softalk Articles Index. Newspeak. Storytalk: A Feeling of Electricity in the Air. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Human Systems Dynamics: A Quieter Revolution. Hey, Mac! Apple’s New Computer is a Winner. The Amazing, Automated Macfactory (AKA Macintosh! The Factory: Apple's Super-High-Tech Coup on the cover). Is the Software Industry Ripe for Representation? Hardtalk: Where Is the Program That Can Print Every Which Way But Loose? Backtalk: Louise Rude’s Second Sight. Marketalk Reviews Index: September 1980 Through December 1983. Newspeak. Storytalk: ‘Misplaced Friends,’ Part One. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Exec Sensible Software: Uncommonly Good Company. Just Think: The Unification of Mankind through the Unification of Physics. Gotta Dance! Terpsichorean Apple Takes Center Stage (AKA Dancing Apples on the cover). Apple Tree Ancestors. Backtalk: Modem Futures Through a Hayes. The Apple II Mouse That Roars Up Mountains. Marketalk Reviews Index: September 1980 through December 1983. Newspeak. Storytalk: Misplaced Friends, Part Two.
Debut: Softly Comment. Exec Quality Software: At Home in Apple Manor. The Most Popular Software of 1983 and All-Time. Born To Compute: Apples Monitor Perinatal Babes. Picking Up the Tab. Storytalk: Sherlock Holmes and the Analytical Engine. Micros Burn Rubber, or, Hot Rod Apples in Hell. Backtalk: EduWare under a Peachtree; The Computerman of Folsom Goes Free. Newspeak. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Softly Comment. Exec Apple Computer International. The Elfin IIc: Light, Tiny, and Sweet. Special Section: Apples All Over the World. Apples Down Under. Personal Computing in the Old World. Apples in Germany. Apples in Tunisia. Apples in Canada. Selling Software from Sicily to Sydney. Newspeak.
Softly Comment. Exec Sweet Micro: The Sound of Success. The Effects of Apples on Real-Time Videos. Backtalk. Expanding the Unexpandable IIc. Cats in the Water (AKA Computable Catamarans on the cover). Storytalk: "MAC. Gate and the Musique Concrete." Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Softly Comment. Exec Haba Systems: Fame for the Fun of It. How Apple Put Training on a Disk. Boy Scout Apples. Vegas Apples Are Beyond Belief. Plus the usual Features and Departments including multi-category Bestseller lists.
Softly Comment. Exec Electronic Arts: Software Construction Company. IInd Grade Chats: A Catalog of Values. Apples Roar: Hollywood Pros Produce with Micros. 2010 Apples: Cupertino and beyond the Infinite (AKA 2010 Apples in Hollywood on the cover). Backtalk: Broderbund Rallies; Dave McFarling Never Says No. Excavations of the Hidden Mind.