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Commodore 64 Exposed

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Commodore 64 Exposed is a book by Bruce Bayley on programming the Commodore 64 in BASIC and machine language. It was published in 1983 by Melbourne House (Tring, Hertfordshire, with Australian and American companies in South Melbourne and Nashville), copyright Beam Software, with contributions by Andrew Pavlomanolakos, Peter Falconer and Goodwin Yuen. The hosted scan is the second edition. ISBN 0-86161-133-0 (UK) and 0-86759-144-7 (Australia).[1] The numbered pages run to 198, the last three of them blank note pages.[2]

The book starts with BASIC and the machine's BASIC commands, then covers the SID sound chip, character and bitmap graphics and sprites, 6510 machine language with the Kernal routines and raster interrupts, and the Datasette, disk drives, 1515 printer, joysticks and paddles. The appendices are reference tables: CHR$ codes, a complete memory map, ROM routines and the BASIC error messages.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[3]

  • Chapter 1: Programming in BASIC, p. 1
  • Chapter 2: Commodore 64 BASIC Commands, p. 17
  • Chapter 3: Advanced BASIC Techniques, p. 42
  • Chapter 4: Sound, p. 51 (including the sound chip registers, p. 70, and music note values, p. 75)
  • Chapter 5: Graphics, p. 79 (including sprites, p. 91, and the VIC-II chip register map, p. 100)
  • Chapter 6: Machine Language Programming on the Commodore 64, p. 101 (including the memory map, p. 118, the Kernal, p. 133, and raster interrupts, p. 145)
  • Chapter 7: External Devices, p. 152
  • Appendix A: CHR$ Value Codes, p. 167
  • Appendix B: Memory (Complete Map), p. 175
  • Appendix C: Keyboard Graphics and How to Get Them, p. 181
  • Appendix D: Useful ROM Routines, p. 183
  • Appendix E: BASIC Error Messages, p. 191
  • Appendix F: Current Key Pressed, p. 193
  • Index, p. 194[2]

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book. It has no schematics, parts lists or component values; for those use the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual.

Download: MelbourneHouse Commodore64 Exposed.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ Bruce Bayley, Commodore 64 Exposed, 2nd edition (Melbourne House, 1983), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 5-6).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bayley, Commodore 64 Exposed, Index and Notes, pp. 194-198 (PDF pp. 204-208).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bayley, Commodore 64 Exposed, Contents (PDF pp. 7-9).
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