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- The Commodore-64 Programmer's Library
- Robert W. Baker
- http://home.comcast.net/{$de}c64proglib/
-
- The Commodore-64 Programmer's Library
- was originally meant to be published
- as a book by Wayne Green Publishing,
- publishers of Kilobaud Magazine - who
- published my PETpourri column in the
- very early Commodore years.
-
- Just before going to print, after all
- the proof reading and editing were
- finalized the publisher was bought by
- another company and the book was
- cancelled.
-
- A close friend of mine, Jim Oldfield,
- who published the Midnite Gazette for
- Commodore users, help me self publish
- the material on floppy disks through
- a distributor in IL for a few years.
- Eventually interest diminished & the
- package was taken off the market.
-
- Just recently I found the original
- Proof copies for the book and the
- accompanying floppy disks, and decided
- to try and make the information
- available for anyone interested. It's
- now available from my simple website
- or on eBay for a very modest fee to
- help cover my internet costs and
- maintain ownership of the material.
-
- Besides the
- http://home.comcast.net/{$de}c64proglib/
- website you may also want to
- look at my RBakerPC blog at
- http://rbakerpc.blogspot.com/ that
- documents much of my writings and
- various activities throughout the
- computer industry.Besides all the
- writing, I also managed an extensive
- newswire service on QuantumLink, AOL
- and Delphi that was also syndicated on
- BBS's nationwide.Plus I created a
- computer industry database that was
- published for years on AOL, on CD
- from EMS and in print by No Starch
- Press. And Omnigraphics used my data
- to help publish their own computer
- industry reference books for libraries
-
- The Package
- 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, Commodore-64 and Commodore-128
- systems.
-
- The 10MB C64ProgLib.zip file contains
- a number of Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
- files that can be easily viewed and
- printed, either directly from this
- website or after downloading to your
- local hard drive. Program listings are
- included but actual loadable programs
- are not included in this file.
-
- The 273KB C64ProgLibD64.zip file
- contains standard D64 disk image
- files for each of the three 1541
- floppy disks distributed in the
- original package. Two disks provide
- electronic copies of all the
- documentation files included in the
- first zip archive while the third disk
- provides loadable copies of all the
- actual program files.
-
- Note that you will need a password to
- access the actual files included in
- the archives and those passwords will
- be emailed to you after payment is
- received.
-
- All material Copyright (c) 1984 -
- Robert W. Baker
-
- For more information about me
- personally, my past writing
- accomplishments and other activities,
- please check my blog at
- www.rbakerpc.blogspot.com
- The Commodore-64 Programmer's Library
-
-
- -DISK IMAGE PACKAGE
- All material copyright (c) 1984
- -Robert W. Baker
-
- Note: This particular Zip archive
- includes standard D64 disk image
- files for the three 1541 floppy disks
- distributed in the original Commodore-
- 64 Programmer's Library package. Two
- of the disks provide copies of all the
- printed documentation files while the
- third disk provides all the loadable
- program files plus sample data files
- There are also three text files
- included that provide copies of the
- directories of these three floppy disk
- images plus a copy of the original
- package label in another Adobe Acrobat
- (.pdf) file as well. Additional Adobe
- Acrobat (.pdf) files providing scanned
- copies of all the printed documentation
- files plus program listings are
- provided in a separate Zip archive.
-
- 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 easierto 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. Those files are available
- in a separate download file. This
- package includes D64 disk image files
- for each of the three original 1541
- format floppy disks. Two disks provide
- the original text files for the book
- while the third file provides all the
- original program files in loadable
- form plus a simple utility to print
- the text files for the book.
-
- *Brief overview of material included in
- this package:
-
- Common Sense Programming
- Saving Space
- Saving Time
- Programming Style
- Debugging Hints
- Getting Into Basic
- Basic Quirks
- Poking Around in Basic
- Computed GOTOs
- Tape Quickies
-
- Hex File Dump Utility
- Data File Copy Utility
-
- Tape File Notes
- Disk Basics
-
- Disk Command Conversions
- Disk Hint
- The OPEN Command
- Disk Internals
- Disk Programming Tips
- Symbol List Variable
-
- Crossreference
- GOTO/GOSUB Crossreference
- Disk Master - Disk Cataloging Utility
- 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
-
- Miscellaneous Programs
- Program Finder
- House Inventory
- Date Book
- Time Billing
- Solitaire
- Black Friday - Stock Market Game
- Easy Script Printer Utility
- Easy Script Word Counter
-
- Miscellaneous Info
- The PET Emulator Program
- The Commodore-64 CIA Chip
- Using Zenith TVs
-
- 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
-
- The following loadable program files
- are included:
- Doc Printer -prints the book text files
- Disk Master
- Compactor
- Uncompactor
- Basic Program Symbol List
- Basic Program GOTO Crossreference
- Hex Dump
- DASM Editor
- DASM Assembler
- ** Sample data files for DASM
- Machine Language Disassembler
- 6502 Simulator
- Data Builder
- Tape-to-Disk Copy
- Disk-to-Tape Copy
- Tape Reader
- Program Data
- Program Search
- WordPro Word Counter
- Easy Script Word Counter
- WordPro Source File Printer
- Easy Script Source File Printer
- Finance
- House Inventory
- Date Book
- Time Billing
- Solitaire
- Black Friday
-
-
- Also included in this package:
- Three text files with the disk
- directories
- Image of Original package label(.pdf)
-