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All about the Commodore 64 Vol2

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All About the Commodore 64, Volume Two is a 1985 programming book for the Commodore 64 by Craig Chamberlain, published by COMPUTE! Publications, Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina. ISBN 0-942386-45-0; cover price $16.95. The cover describes it as "everything you need to know to create sophisticated music, sprites, and detailed bitmapped screens on your Commodore 64, with both the convenience of BASIC and the speed of machine language".[1] The numbered pages run to 491 (the index is pp. 487-491). The Library of Congress catalogues both volumes under one record, LCCN 84183325.[2] It follows Volume One.

Parts 2 to 4 are machine language utilities with BASIC interfaces: a bitmapped graphics utility and shape editor, the Sidplayer music system and a sprite control system. COMPUTE! sold their programs separately on disk; the disk is not part of the scan.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the contents list.[3]

  • Acknowledgments, p. vii; Foreword, p. ix; Introduction, p. xi
  • Part 1, Advanced BASIC: 1. Numbers and Mathematics, p. 3; 2. More Functions, p. 19; 3. File Input/Output, p. 37; 4. The End of BASIC, p. 81
  • Part 2, Bitmapped Graphics: 5. The Bitmapped Graphics Utility, p. 97; 6. Shapedit, p. 123
  • Part 3, Sidplayer: 7. Introduction to Music and the Sidplayer, p. 185; 8. The Editor, p. 227; 9. Making Music, p. 271; 10. Sophisticated Sounds, p. 305; 11. Music and Your BASIC Program, p. 351; Sidplayer editor command index, p. 375
  • Part 4, Sprite Control System: 12. Introduction to the Sprite Control System, p. 379; 13. Defining Sprite Shapes, p. 403; 14. Using the Control System in BASIC, p. 419; 15. SCS Advanced Features, p. 433; 16. Miscellaneous Topics, p. 445; command index, p. 463
  • Appendices A-E (typing in programs, the MLX machine language editor, the Automatic Proofreader, a program merge utility), p. 465
  • Index, p. 487

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book with no hardware or service information; Commodore's repair documentation is in the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual. The 517-page scan includes the disk order form, COMPUTE!'s advertisement pages, the covers and a closing page from retro-commodore.eu.

Download: Computes All about the Commodore 64 Vol2.pdf (169 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Craig Chamberlain, All About the Commodore 64, Volume Two (COMPUTE! Publications, 1985), cover, title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 1-3).
  2. ↑ Open Library, All about the Commodore 64, record OL2943960M, from Library of Congress data. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chamberlain, All About the Commodore 64, Volume Two, Contents and Introduction, pp. iii-xiv, and order page.
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