Commodore 64 MicroGuide
MicroGuide for the Commodore 64, subtitled A Quick Reference Guide to the BASIC and System Operations of the Commodore 64, is a 1984 pocket reference by Professor Peter Morse and Brian Hancock, published by Century Communications Ltd, London. ISBN 0 7126 0354 9.[1] The numbered pages run to 29; Open Library gives the extent as 28 pages.[2]
It summarises the Commodore 64's BASIC keywords, control keys, error messages, screen and colour memory maps, sprite registers, sound registers and disk commands. The copyright page records Commodore Business Machines U.K. Ltd's permission to use material from pages 132, 135 and 152 of the Commodore User Guide.[1]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers are from the contents list.[3]
- Commodore keywords, p. 3
- 1. Conventions, p. 4
- 2. Arithmetic and logic operations, p. 6
- 3. Control keys, p. 7
- 4. Operating commands, p. 9
- 5. BASIC statements, p. 10
- 6. BASIC functions, p. 11
- 7. Error messages, p. 16
- 8. Screen display and graphics, p. 18
- 9. Sound, p. 24
- 10. Peripheral control commands, p. 28
What this book does not contain
[edit | edit source]It is a programming reference with no hardware or service information. Commodore's repair documentation is in the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual. The 33-page scan includes both covers and a closing page from retro-commodore.eu, the archive that scanned it.
Download: CenturyCommunications Commodore 64 MicroGuide.pdf (7 MB)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Morse and Brian Hancock, MicroGuide for the Commodore 64 (Century Communications, 1984), cover, copyright page and title page (PDF pp. 1-3).
- ↑ Open Library, Microguide for the Commodore 64, record OL15156941M. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- ↑ Morse and Hancock, MicroGuide for the Commodore 64, Contents (PDF p. 4).