Your Commodore 64
Your Commodore 64: A Guide to the Commodore 64 Computer is a 1983 book by John Heilborn and Ran Talbott, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill of Berkeley, California. ISBN 0-88134-114-2. The printing line shows the hosted scan is the second printing.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xii, 444 pages (call number QA76.8.C64 H44 1983).[2]
It is a general guide to the Commodore 64: setting up the machine and its controls, the screen editor, the Datassette, 1541 disk drive and 1525 printer, BASIC from first principles to advanced techniques, game controllers, graphics and sound.[3] The appendices include a system block diagram (Appendix A) and the pin assignments of all the C-64's input/output connectors, given so that readers can design their own interfaces (Appendix C).[4]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[5]
- Introduction, p. xi
- 1: Introducing the Commodore 64 Computer, p. 1
- 2: Operating the C-64, p. 39
- 3: Programming the C-64 Computer, p. 57
- 4: Advanced BASIC Programming, p. 117
- 5: Game Controllers, p. 155
- 6: Graphics, p. 169
- 7: Sound, p. 277
- 8: Peripheral Devices, p. 305
- Appendix A: System Architecture, p. 349
- Appendix B: Memory Usage, p. 351
- Appendix C: C-64 I/O Pinouts, p. 367
- Appendix D: Conversion Tables, Trigonometric Functions, p. 373
- Appendix E: Sound and Display Characters and Codes, p. 381
- Appendix F: Error Messages, p. 389
- Appendix G: BASIC Statements, p. 395
- Appendix H: BASIC Functions, p. 425
- Index, p. 439
What this book does not contain
[edit | edit source]Apart from the connector pinouts and the block diagram it is a user's and programming guide. It has no schematic, parts list or component values; for those use the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual.
Download: Osborne Your Commodore 64.pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ John Heilborn and Ran Talbott, Your Commodore 64: A Guide to the Commodore 64 Computer (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1983), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 5-6).
- ↑ Open Library, Your Commodore 64: a guide to the Commodore 64 computer, record OL2901290M, from Library of Congress catalogue data (LCCN 84-129446). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- ↑ Heilborn and Talbott, Your Commodore 64, Introduction, pp. xi-xii (PDF pp. 11-12).
- ↑ Heilborn and Talbott, Your Commodore 64, Appendix A, p. 349, and Appendix C: C-64 I/O Pinouts, pp. 367-371 (PDF pp. 361, 379-383).
- ↑ Heilborn and Talbott, Your Commodore 64, Contents (PDF p. 9).