Commodore 64 Software Projects
Commodore 64 Software Projects is a 1984 book by Rudolf Smit, published by Melbourne House (Tring, Hertfordshire, with companies in Nashville and South Melbourne), copyright Beam Software. ISBN 0-86161-146-2. The hosted scan is the first edition.[1] The numbered pages run to 88, followed by an unnumbered index; the British Library record gives the extent as 88 pages.[2]
The book is for beginners who have worked through the Commodore 64 user guide and want to write their own BASIC programs. Each project is given as a planned outline in the top-down, structured style, and the reader writes the remaining routines; Appendix II gives clues to the solutions.[3] The projects are a birthday and anniversary calendar, a telephone directory, a mortgage repayment calculator, a word guessing game and a dice roller.[4]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[4]
- Introduction, p. 1
- Chapter 1: The right way to good programming, p. 3
- Chapter 2: Birthday and Anniversary Calendar (1), p. 15
- Chapter 3: Birthday Calendar (2), p. 25
- Chapter 4: Telephone Directory, p. 43
- Chapter 5: Mortgage Repayments, p. 51
- Chapter 6: A word guessing game, p. 63
- Chapter 7: Rolling three dices, p. 73
- Appendix I: Answers to some questions raised, p. 81
- Appendix II: Clues to solutions of programming problems, p. 83
- Appendix III: Screen Dump Routine for Commodore 64 Printer Combination, p. 87
What this book does not contain
[edit | edit source]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 Software Projects C64 -600dpi--ocr-.pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Rudolf Smit, Commodore 64 Software Projects, 1st edition (Melbourne House, 1984), front cover, title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 1, 5-6).
- ↑ Open Library, Commodore 64: software projects, record OL22331519M, from British Library catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- ↑ Smit, Commodore 64 Software Projects, Introduction, p. 1 (PDF p. 11).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Smit, Commodore 64 Software Projects, Contents (PDF pp. 7-10).