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Preface
1 General Operating Procedures
Getting Familiar with the Keyboard
Quote-Mode Operations
Essential Disk Operations
2 BASIC Operations and Programming Procedures
Numeric and String Constants for BASIC
Numeric and String Variables in BASIC
Operators for Commodore BASIC
BASIC 7.0 Commands, Statements, and Functions
Keyboard Abbreviations of BASIC Operations
Dealing with BASIC Error Conditions
Tokenized BASIC Formats
3 DOS Operating and Programming Procedures
Preliminary Considerations
DOS-Related Error Conditions
The Disk Directory
Procedures for Saving Programs on Disk
Procedures for Loading Programs from Disk
Procedures for Copying Disk Files
Procedures for Cleaning up Disks
Using the TEST/DEMO DISKETTE and DOS Shell
Sequentia! Text Files
Relative File Procedures
Direct-Access Disk Procedures
4 Monitor and Assembly Language Procedures
T~E Monitor's Hexadecimal Format
Essential Monitor Operations
The Monitor's Machine Language Aids
Summary of 8502 Op Codes
The 8502 Instruction Set
5 Introduetion to CP/M Procedures
Bringing up CP/M on the Commodore 128
Help for Beginners
Summary of CP/M Commands
6 Text Screen Procedures
Preliminary Considerations
Switching Column Formats
Switching Character Sets
Setting the Normal/Inverse Character Format
Setting Screen and Character Colors
Using Cursor Control Features
Setting Alternative Text Windows
Using the Screen-Editing Features
Printing Text from Machine Language Programs
Working with the Character Sets
Working Directly with Screen Data
Using Alternative Screen RAM Locations
Writing Directly to the 80-Column Screen
7 Bit-Mapped Graphics Procedures
Bit-Mapped Screen Formats
Plotting Figures on the Graphics Sereens
Rescaling the Screen
Saving and Reloading Bit-Mapped Shapes
Setting Graphics Sereens from Machine Language Routines
Working Directly with Standard Bit-Mapped Sereens
8 Sprite Animation Procedures
Creating Sprite Figures
Saving and Reloading Sprites
Specifying, Positioning, A:qd Moving Sprites
Detecting Sprite Collisions
Sprites and Machine Language Routines
Sound and Music Procedures
Preliminary Considerations
U Sing BASIC' S PLAY and TEMPO Staterne Ts
Using the ENVELOPE Statement
Using the Filter Statement
Working Directly with the SID Registers
Working with Sound Enhancement Registers
Summary of SID Registers
10 Keyboard Procedures
Keyboard Scanning Operations
Working with the Non-Scanned Keys
Using the Keyboard Queue and GETIN
Using the Main Keyboard Buffer
Using the Function Keys
Joystick, Paddle, Light Pen, and Mouse Procedures
Joystick Procedures
Game Paddle Procedures
12 Printer and Communications Procedures
Printer Procedures
Using the RS-232-C Communications Feature
13 Commodore 128 Memory Maps
The Lower RAM Addresses: $0000-$03FF
The Upper RAM-Only Area: $0400-$3FFF
Basic Rom: $4000-$Afff
Screen Editor ROM: $COOO-$CFFF
I/0, ROM, and RAM Block: $DOOO-$DFFF
Kernal ROM: $EOOO-$FFFF
14 Memory Management Procedures
The Standard Bank Configurations
Bank-Switching Statements, Registers and Procedures
Using the BANK 1 Contiguration
Summary of MMU Configuration Registers
Bank Switching Procedures
A Number-System Base Conversions
Hexadecimal-To-Decimal Conversions
Decimal-To-Hexadecimal Conversions
Conventional Decimal to Two-Byte Decimal Format
Two-Byte Decimal to Conventional Decimal Format
Binary-To-Decimal Conversion
Binary-To-Hexadecimal Conversion
Hexadecimal-To-Binary Conversion
Decimal-To-Binary Conversion
A Complete Conversion Table for Decimal
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