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  5. TABLE OF CONTENTS
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  7.     COPYRIGHT .................................................. 1
  8.     DISCLAIMER ................................................. 1 
  9.     CREDITS .................................................... 1
  10.     ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................... 1
  11.     SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ........................................ 2
  12.     UPDATES .................................................... 2
  13.     REPLACEMENTS................................................ 2
  14.     TECHNICAL SUPPORT .......................................... 2
  15.     HOW TO CONTACT QUESTRONIX .................................. 3
  16.     TRADEMARKS ................................................. 3
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  18.     INTRODUCTION ............................................... 1-1
  19.         WHAT IS THE A64 PACKAGE? ............................... 1-1
  20.         WHAT DOES IT COST? ..................................... 1-2
  21.         WHAT YOU GET ........................................... 1-2
  22.         HOW TO BECOME A REGISTERED OWNER ....................... 1-3
  23.         WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE ................................... 1-4
  24.         A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR ................................. 1-5
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  26.     GETTING STARTED ............................................ 2-1
  27.        CREATING AN A64 WORKBENCH ............................... 2-1
  28.        INSTALLING THE A64 PACKAGE ON A HARD DISK ............... 2-2
  29.        MINIMUM INSTALLATION .................................... 2-2
  30.        RUNNING A64 ............................................. 2-3
  31.        A64'S HARDWARE INTERFACE ................................ 2-4
  32.        INSTALLING A64'S HARDWARE INTERFACE ..................... 2-4
  33.        THE A64 PACKAGES FILE STRUCTURE ......................... 2-5
  34.            DISK #1: A64 ........................................ 2-5
  35.            DISK #2: A64 DOC & UTILS ............................ 2-6
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  37.     A64 PREFS .................................................. 3-1
  38.         A64 PREFS SETTINGS AND CONFIGURATION FILES ............. 3-1
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  40.         THE MENUS .............................................. 3-3
  41.             THE PROJECT MENU ................................... 3-3
  42.                 NEW (RESET) .................................... 3-3
  43.                 LOAD CONFIG .................................... 3-3
  44.                 SAVE CONFIG .................................... 3-4
  45.                     NAMING CONFIGURATION FILES ................. 3-4
  46.                 RESET CONFIG ................................... 3-5
  47.                 ABOUT A64 ...................................... 3-5
  48.                 QUIT A64 ....................................... 3-6
  49.                 EXIT PREFS ..................................... 3-6
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  51.             THE SYSTEM MENU .................................... 3-7
  52.                 PAR PORT ....................................... 3-7
  53.                 SER PORT ....................................... 3-7
  54.                     MODEMS ..................................... 3-8
  55.                 DRIVES ......................................... 3-8
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  68.                     DRIVES GADGETS ............................. 3-8
  69.                     WORK DIR GADGET ............................ 3-9
  70.                     AMIGA DRIVES ............................... 3-10
  71.                 PRINTERS ....................................... 3-11
  72.                     PRINTERS GADGETS ........................... 3-11
  73.                     CONVERT CRs GADGET ......................... 3-11
  74.                     CONVERT ASCIIs GADGET ...................... 3-12
  75.                 GAME PORTS (JOYSTICKS) ......................... 3-12
  76.                     SWAP PORTS GADGET .......................... 3-12
  77.                     PORT 1 AND PORT 2 GADGETS .................. 3-13
  78.                 KEYBOARD ....................................... 3-14
  79.                     KEYBOARD DIFFERENCES ....................... 3-14
  80.                     A PROBLEM WITH THE KEYBOARD ................ 3-15
  81.                     THE NUMERIC KEYPAD ......................... 3-15
  82.                     SPECIAL KEYS ............................... 3-16
  83.                     UNUSED KEYS ................................ 3-16
  84.                 SUPERSTATE ..................................... 3-16
  85.                     A64'S THREE MODES OF OPERATION ............. 3-16
  86.                         PAUSE MODE ............................. 3-17
  87.                         C64 MODE ............................... 3-17
  88.                         SUPERSTATE MODE ........................ 3-17
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  90.             THE GRAFIX MENU .................................... 3-18
  91.                 COLORS (See COLOR SCREEN Section) .............. 3-18
  92.                 BORDERS ........................................ 3-18
  93.                 SCRN REFRESH ................................... 3-18
  94.                     SCREEN REFRESH TYPE GADGET ................. 3-19
  95.                         DIRECT MODE ............................ 3-19
  96.                         SAMPLE MODE ............................ 3-19
  97.                     SCREEN REFRESH RATE GADGET ................. 3-20
  98.                 RASTERS ........................................ 3-20
  99.                     SCAN LINE READ GADGET ...................... 3-20
  100.                         REAL ................................... 3-21
  101.                         FAKE ................................... 3-21
  102.                     ROUND SCAN LNS GADGET ...................... 3-22
  103.                 SPRITES ........................................ 3-22
  104.                     MONO SPRITES GADGET ........................ 3-23
  105.                     SPRITE COL GADGET .......................... 3-23
  106.                     FRGRD COL GADGET ........................... 3-23
  107.                     PRIORITIES GADGET .......................... 3-24
  108.                     DATA RATE GADGET ........................... 3-24
  109.                     HARDWARE RATE GADGET ....................... 3-24
  110.                 ALL GFX ........................................ 3-25
  111.                 REFRESH RATE TABLE ............................. 3-26
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  113.             THE TOOLS MENU ..................................... 3-27
  114.                 IFF FORMAT ..................................... 3-27
  115.                 LOAD FONT ...................................... 3-28
  116.                 SAVE FONT ...................................... 3-28
  117.                 VIEW FONT ...................................... 3-29
  118.                 A64MON (See A64Mon Section) .................... 3-29
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  131.             THE CODE MENU ...................................... 3-30
  132.                 LOAD MAP ....................................... 3-30
  133.                 SAVE MAP ....................................... 3-30
  134.                 LOAD CODE ...................................... 3-31
  135.                 FREE CODE ...................................... 3-31
  136.                 A64 ROMS ....................................... 3-32
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  138.             THE MISC MENU ...................................... 3-33
  139.                 SOUND .......................................... 3-33
  140.                 CIA RATE ....................................... 3-33
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  142.         COLOR SCREEN ........................................... 3-35
  143.             COLOR GADGETS ...................................... 3-35
  144.             SLIDER GADGETS ..................................... 3-36
  145.             COLOR MODE GADGET .................................. 3-37
  146.             20 COLOR MODE ...................................... 3-37
  147.             16 COLOR MODE ...................................... 3-38
  148.             2, 4, & 8 COLOR MODES .............................. 3-38
  149.             RESET GADGET ....................................... 3-40
  150.             SPREAD GADGET ...................................... 3-40
  151.             EXCH GADGET ........................................ 3-40
  152.             COPY GADGET ........................................ 3-41
  153.             UNDO GADGET ........................................ 3-41
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  155.         A64Mon ................................................. 3-42
  156.             6510 STATUS WINDOW ................................. 3-42
  157.             SCREEN EDITOR WINDOW ............................... 3-42
  158.             COMMAND STATUS WINDOW .............................. 3-43
  159.             A64MON COMMANDS .................................... 3-43
  160.                 COMMAND NOTES .................................. 3-44
  161.                 DISASM ......................................... 3-45
  162.                 PEEK ........................................... 3-45
  163.                 POKE ........................................... 3-45
  164.                 OPENFILE ....................................... 3-46
  165.                 CLOSEFILE ...................................... 3-46
  166.                 INTVECS ........................................ 3-46
  167.                 MEMCNTRL ....................................... 3-47
  168.                 HEXDUMP ........................................ 3-47
  169.                 CIADUMP ........................................ 3-47
  170.                 SIDDUMP ........................................ 3-47
  171.                 VICDUMP ........................................ 3-48
  172.                 HEX ............................................ 3-48
  173.                 DEC ............................................ 3-48
  174.                 EXIT ........................................... 3-48
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  176.         CONVERTER .............................................. 4-1
  177.             A64'S SPEED ........................................ 4-1
  178.             OPTIMIZE ........................................... 4-1
  179.             HOW A64 RUNS A PROGRAM ............................. 4-2
  180.             CONVERT ............................................ 4-3
  181.                 MAPDUMP PARAMETER .............................. 4-3
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  194.                 OUPUT PARAMETER ................................ 4-3
  195.                 ADDR FILE PARAMETER ............................ 4-4
  196.                     WHAT IS AN ADDRESS FILE .................... 4-4
  197.                 THE -L PARAMETER ............................... 4-5
  198.                 THE -B PARAMETER ............................... 4-5
  199.                 THE -P PARAMETER ............................... 4-6
  200.             CONVERTING A C64 PROGRAM ........................... 4-6
  201.             WHAT CAN AND CAN'T BE CONVERTED .................... 4-10
  202.             NOTE TO CONVERTERS ................................. 4-11
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  204.         UTILITIES .............................................. 5-1
  205.             CONVENTIONS FOR THE CLI BASED UTILITIES ............ 5-2
  206.             64Tools ............................................ 5-3
  207.                 DRIVE GADGET ................................... 5-3
  208.                 PATTERN GADGET ................................. 5-3
  209.                 NEW DISK GADGET ................................ 5-4
  210.                 FILE GADGETS ................................... 5-4
  211.                 INCLUDE ALL GADGET ............................. 5-4
  212.                 EXCLUDE ALL GADGET ............................. 5-4
  213.                 DESTINATION GADGET ............................. 5-4
  214.                 START GADGET ................................... 5-4
  215.                 AMIGATO64 GADGET ............................... 5-5
  216.                 64STATUS GADGET ................................ 5-5
  217.                 64CMD GADGET ................................... 5-5
  218.                 64PRINT GADGET ................................. 5-5
  219.                 STRIPLOADADDR GADGET ........................... 5-5
  220.                 PET2ASCII GADGET ............................... 5-5
  221.                 ASCII2PET GADGET ............................... 5-6
  222.             64Cmd .............................................. 5-7
  223.             64Dir .............................................. 5-8
  224.             64Print ............................................ 5-9
  225.             64Status ........................................... 5-10
  226.             64ToAmiga .......................................... 5-11
  227.             AmigaTo64 .......................................... 5-12
  228.             GrabGO64ROMs ....................................... 5-13
  229.             Pet2ASCII .......................................... 5-14
  230.             ASCII2Pet .......................................... 5-15
  231.             PrintFile .......................................... 5-16
  232.             StripLoadAddr ...................................... 5-17
  233.             C64 PROGRAMS ....................................... 5-18
  234.                 SaveROMs ....................................... 5-19
  235.                 64Colors ....................................... 5-19
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  237.         TECHNICAL .............................................. 6-1
  238.             A64 AND MULTITASKING ............................... 6-1
  239.             A64 AND MEMORY ..................................... 6-1
  240.             680x0 SUPPORT ...................................... 6-1
  241.             A64 AND THE A3000 .................................. 6-2
  242.             ROMS ............................................... 6-2
  243.                 WHAT IS ROM? ................................... 6-2
  244.                 THE C64'S ROMS ................................. 6-2
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  257.                 A64'S ROMS ..................................... 6-2
  258.                 INSTALLING THE C64'S ROMS ...................... 6-5
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  260.         PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ................................. 7-1
  261.             INCOMPATIBILITIES .................................. 7-2
  262.                 FAST LOADERS ................................... 7-2
  263.                 CASSETTE PORT, USER PORT and CARTRIDGE PORT .... 7-3
  264.                 SPRITES ........................................ 7-3
  265.             KNOWN BUGS ......................................... 7-3
  266.                 PAR PORT BUG ................................... 7-3
  267.                 SCREEN SHIFTED BUG ............................. 7-4
  268.                 OTHER BUGS? .................................... 7-4
  269.             A64 ERRORS ......................................... 7-5
  270.                 ERROR LIST ..................................... 7-6
  271.                     HOW TO INTERPRET ERROR NUMBERS ............. 7-6
  272.             ERROR REPORT ....................................... 7-17
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