The Commodore-64 Programmer's Library
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All material copyright (c) 1984 -- Robert W. Baker

This package includes many of my early original magazine articles,
programs and programming ideas for the Commodore-64 that appeared in
various Commodore related magazines of the 1970's and 1980's when I was
writing the PETpourri column for Kilobaud Microcomputing magazine. A
fair amount of the material was originally written for the Commodore PET
and CBM systems, then rewritten and updated for the VIC-20 and
Commodore-64 systems.

This is a collection of many different ideas written over several years
so there is no specific theme to this package. However, I tried to
organize the material into useful sections that hopefully make it easier
to digest.

This package was originally written to be published as a book but the
deal fell through at the last minute. The package was eventually
distributed in electronic form on diskette by a publisher in Illinois
for several years. By the way, a copy of the original cover label is
included in a separate Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file in this package.

Just recently I came across the original printed manuscript for this
package and decided to scan the material into an Acrobat file and make
it available again to anyone interested. Since the original printed copy
was created with a dot matrix printer, the scanned images are not ideal
but are easily readable on screen or in printed form. The loadable
program files ARE NOT INCLUDE, only the printed listings and the
accompanying text. Since the listings were printed on continuous
fan-feed paper, the bottom line of some pages are not totally readable
in the scanned images so I've added notes on those pages to help clarify
the missing line(s). The loadable program files are available in another
zip archive that includes standard D64 disk images of the three 1541
format floppy disks that were included in the original package.

Here's a brief overview of the material included in each of the files
in this package:

Chaper_1-2.pdf

	Title Page & Index

	INTRODUCTION

	Chapter 1: Common Sense Programming
		Saving Space
		Saving Time
		Programming Style
		Debugging Hints

	Chapter 2: Getting Into Basic
		Basic Quirks
		Poking Around in Basic
		Computed GOTOs

Chapter_3-5.pdf

	Chapter 3: Tape Quickies
		Hex File Dump Utility
		Data File Copy Utility
		Tape File Notes

	Chapter 4: Disk Basics
		Disk Command Conversions
		Disk Hint
		The OPEN Command

	Chapter 5: Disk Internals
		Disk Programming Tips
		Symbol List - Variable Crossreference
		GOTO/GOSUB Crossreference
		Disk Master - Disk Cataloging Utility

Chapter_6.pdf

	Chapter 6: From Basic to Assembly Language
		Getting Started in Assembly Language Programming
		Disassembler Program
		DASM - Editor/Assembler Programs
		Data Builder Utility
		The CHRGET Routine
		Intermixing Basic & Machine Language
		6502 Simulator Program

Chapter_7-8.pdf

	Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Programs
		Program Finder
		House Inventory
		Date Book
		Time Billing
		Solitaire
		Black Friday - Stock Market Game
		Easy Script Printer Utility
		Easy Script Word Counter

	Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Info
		The PET Emulator Program
		The Commodore-64 CIA Chip
		Using Zenith TVs

Extras.pdf

	Additional material later added to the original collection:

	Compactor - Basic program compactor utility
	Uncompactor - reverse utility to uncompact Basic program
	Word Pro Disk/Tape Print Utilities
	Finance - simple financial calculator


PgmListings.pdf

	Complete program listings are included in printed form only:

	Basic Program Symbol List
	Basic Program GOTO Crossreference
	Hex Dump
	Tape-to-Disk Copy
	Disk-to-Tape Copy
	Tape Reader
	Disk Master
	Machine Language Disassembler
	DASM Editor
	DASM Assembler
	Data Builder
	6502 Simulator
	Program Data
	Program Search
	House Inventory
	Date Book
	Time Billing
	Solitaire
	Black Friday
	Easy Script Source File Printer
	Easy Script Word Counter


Label.pdf

	Image of Original package label