Mastering machine code on your Commodore 64

Mastering Machine Code on Your Commodore 64 is a book by Mark Greenshields, published in London by Interface Publications; the copyright is 1984 and the hosted scan is the first printing of May 1984. ISBN 0-907563-69-4. The numbered pages run to 232, the last two of them blank note pages. It follows the author's Mastering the Commodore 64.

Section 1 lists a 6510 assembler, disassembler and monitor and teaches every 6510 instruction and addressing mode. Section 2 uses that assembler for character and pixel scrolling, sprites, music, interrupts, raster split screens and high-resolution graphics, and ends by adding commands to Commodore 64 BASIC. Section 3 explains the ROM routines, and the appendices give a memory map, character charts, the Kernal jump table and the 6510 instruction set. Greenshields thanks Jim Butterfield for his public-domain SUPERMON monitor.

Contents

The main contents list gives section descriptions without page numbers; the Section 2 list gives page numbers for each program.

• Section 1: 6510 assembler/disassembler/monitor listing; tutorial on the 6510 instruction set and addressing modes
• Section 2: scrolling routines (p. 46), sprites (p. 58), music (p. 65), interrupts (p. 73, including function keys and a ZX Spectrum-style one-key entry), rasters (pp. 67-92), high resolution graphics (p. 95) and adding commands to BASIC (GRAPH, NRM, CLG, FILL, CHAR, COLOUR, PLOT, UNPLOT, APND, PROG, OFF, OLD, MSAVE, MLOAD, MVERIFY, INVERT; pp. 128-129)
• Section 3: the ROM routines
• Appendices: memory map; colour, screen and ASCII charts; Kernal jump table; 6510 instructions with hex and decimal equivalents
• Index, p. 225

What this book does not contain

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

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