Simulation techniques on the Commodore 64

Simulation Techniques on the Commodore 64: Practical Routines for Home and Business Use is a 1984 book by John Cochrane, published in London by Sunshine Books (an imprint of Scot Press). ISBN 0-946408-58-0. The British Library record gives the extent as ix, 165 pages; the text ends with the glossary on p. 159 and the rest is the publisher's advertisements.

Part 1 is background: the history and types of simulation, Monte Carlo, deterministic and Markov chain techniques, verifying a model, and a short overview of the Commodore 64's chips and memory for simulation work. Part 2 has five complete simulations with listings: financial trend prediction, product testing, project planning, simulating unknowns and real-time simulation. Appendix A is Simplespread, a general-purpose spreadsheet program. The foreword is itself a BASIC program.

Contents

Page numbers are from the book's contents list.

• Foreword, p. vii
• Program Notes, p. ix
• Part 1, Theoretical background
  • 1: Made to Measure (introduction), p. 3
  • 2: When I was a Boy (a background to simulations), p. 9
  • 3: But What Does This Little Black Button Do? (what simulations are and how they are used), p. 25
  • 4: Getting it Together (practical techniques), p. 35
  • 5: I'll Do It My Way (what the 64 can do), p. 51
• Part 2, Practical
  • 6: Laughing All the Way to the Bank (money models), p. 61
  • 7: Testing Testing Testing (product development), p. 73
  • 8: What We Want Is Information, p. 87
  • 9: And Out of the Unknown... (simulating the unknown), p. 103
  • 10: Campaign For Real-time (real-time simulation), p. 123
• Appendix A: Simplespread, p. 139
• Glossary, p. 155

What this book does not contain

It is a programming book. Chapter 5 describes the 64's chips only at block level; there are no schematics, parts lists or component values. For those use the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual.

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