With the May 1988 issue, the magazine was redesigned and the type-in program listings were dropped, as was coverage of the Atari 8-bit computers. In 1990 "Compute!" was out of publication for several months when it was sold to General Media, publishers at the time of "Omni" and "Penthouse" magazines, in May of that year. General Media changed the title of the magazine to "COMPUTE", without the exclamation point, and the cover design was changed to resemble that of "OMNI" magazine. Ziff Davis bought Compute!'s assets, including its subscriber list, in 1994. General Media had ceased its publication before the sale.