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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT .................................................. 1
DISCLAIMER ................................................. 1
CREDITS .................................................... 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................... 1
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ........................................ 2
UPDATES .................................................... 2
REPLACEMENTS................................................ 2
TECHNICAL SUPPORT .......................................... 2
HOW TO CONTACT QUESTRONIX .................................. 3
TRADEMARKS ................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION ............................................... 1-1
WHAT IS THE A64 PACKAGE? ............................... 1-1
WHAT DOES IT COST? ..................................... 1-2
WHAT YOU GET ........................................... 1-2
HOW TO BECOME A REGISTERED OWNER ....................... 1-3
WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE ................................... 1-4
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR ................................. 1-5
GETTING STARTED ............................................ 2-1
CREATING AN A64 WORKBENCH ............................... 2-1
INSTALLING THE A64 PACKAGE ON A HARD DISK ............... 2-2
MINIMUM INSTALLATION .................................... 2-2
RUNNING A64 ............................................. 2-3
A64'S HARDWARE INTERFACE ................................ 2-4
INSTALLING A64'S HARDWARE INTERFACE ..................... 2-4
THE A64 PACKAGES FILE STRUCTURE ......................... 2-5
DISK #1: A64 ........................................ 2-5
DISK #2: A64 DOC & UTILS ............................ 2-6
A64 PREFS .................................................. 3-1
A64 PREFS SETTINGS AND CONFIGURATION FILES ............. 3-1
THE MENUS .............................................. 3-3
THE PROJECT MENU ................................... 3-3
NEW (RESET) .................................... 3-3
LOAD CONFIG .................................... 3-3
SAVE CONFIG .................................... 3-4
NAMING CONFIGURATION FILES ................. 3-4
RESET CONFIG ................................... 3-5
ABOUT A64 ...................................... 3-5
QUIT A64 ....................................... 3-6
EXIT PREFS ..................................... 3-6
THE SYSTEM MENU .................................... 3-7
PAR PORT ....................................... 3-7
SER PORT ....................................... 3-7
MODEMS ..................................... 3-8
DRIVES ......................................... 3-8
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DRIVES GADGETS ............................. 3-8
WORK DIR GADGET ............................ 3-9
AMIGA DRIVES ............................... 3-10
PRINTERS ....................................... 3-11
PRINTERS GADGETS ........................... 3-11
CONVERT CRs GADGET ......................... 3-11
CONVERT ASCIIs GADGET ...................... 3-12
GAME PORTS (JOYSTICKS) ......................... 3-12
SWAP PORTS GADGET .......................... 3-12
PORT 1 AND PORT 2 GADGETS .................. 3-13
KEYBOARD ....................................... 3-14
KEYBOARD DIFFERENCES ....................... 3-14
A PROBLEM WITH THE KEYBOARD ................ 3-15
THE NUMERIC KEYPAD ......................... 3-15
SPECIAL KEYS ............................... 3-16
UNUSED KEYS ................................ 3-16
SUPERSTATE ..................................... 3-16
A64'S THREE MODES OF OPERATION ............. 3-16
PAUSE MODE ............................. 3-17
C64 MODE ............................... 3-17
SUPERSTATE MODE ........................ 3-17
THE GRAFIX MENU .................................... 3-18
COLORS (See COLOR SCREEN Section) .............. 3-18
BORDERS ........................................ 3-18
SCRN REFRESH ................................... 3-18
SCREEN REFRESH TYPE GADGET ................. 3-19
DIRECT MODE ............................ 3-19
SAMPLE MODE ............................ 3-19
SCREEN REFRESH RATE GADGET ................. 3-20
RASTERS ........................................ 3-20
SCAN LINE READ GADGET ...................... 3-20
REAL ................................... 3-21
FAKE ................................... 3-21
ROUND SCAN LNS GADGET ...................... 3-22
SPRITES ........................................ 3-22
MONO SPRITES GADGET ........................ 3-23
SPRITE COL GADGET .......................... 3-23
FRGRD COL GADGET ........................... 3-23
PRIORITIES GADGET .......................... 3-24
DATA RATE GADGET ........................... 3-24
HARDWARE RATE GADGET ....................... 3-24
ALL GFX ........................................ 3-25
REFRESH RATE TABLE ............................. 3-26
THE TOOLS MENU ..................................... 3-27
IFF FORMAT ..................................... 3-27
LOAD FONT ...................................... 3-28
SAVE FONT ...................................... 3-28
VIEW FONT ...................................... 3-29
A64MON (See A64Mon Section) .................... 3-29
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THE CODE MENU ...................................... 3-30
LOAD MAP ....................................... 3-30
SAVE MAP ....................................... 3-30
LOAD CODE ...................................... 3-31
FREE CODE ...................................... 3-31
A64 ROMS ....................................... 3-32
THE MISC MENU ...................................... 3-33
SOUND .......................................... 3-33
CIA RATE ....................................... 3-33
COLOR SCREEN ........................................... 3-35
COLOR GADGETS ...................................... 3-35
SLIDER GADGETS ..................................... 3-36
COLOR MODE GADGET .................................. 3-37
20 COLOR MODE ...................................... 3-37
16 COLOR MODE ...................................... 3-38
2, 4, & 8 COLOR MODES .............................. 3-38
RESET GADGET ....................................... 3-40
SPREAD GADGET ...................................... 3-40
EXCH GADGET ........................................ 3-40
COPY GADGET ........................................ 3-41
UNDO GADGET ........................................ 3-41
A64Mon ................................................. 3-42
6510 STATUS WINDOW ................................. 3-42
SCREEN EDITOR WINDOW ............................... 3-42
COMMAND STATUS WINDOW .............................. 3-43
A64MON COMMANDS .................................... 3-43
COMMAND NOTES .................................. 3-44
DISASM ......................................... 3-45
PEEK ........................................... 3-45
POKE ........................................... 3-45
OPENFILE ....................................... 3-46
CLOSEFILE ...................................... 3-46
INTVECS ........................................ 3-46
MEMCNTRL ....................................... 3-47
HEXDUMP ........................................ 3-47
CIADUMP ........................................ 3-47
SIDDUMP ........................................ 3-47
VICDUMP ........................................ 3-48
HEX ............................................ 3-48
DEC ............................................ 3-48
EXIT ........................................... 3-48
CONVERTER .............................................. 4-1
A64'S SPEED ........................................ 4-1
OPTIMIZE ........................................... 4-1
HOW A64 RUNS A PROGRAM ............................. 4-2
CONVERT ............................................ 4-3
MAPDUMP PARAMETER .............................. 4-3
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OUPUT PARAMETER ................................ 4-3
ADDR FILE PARAMETER ............................ 4-4
WHAT IS AN ADDRESS FILE .................... 4-4
THE -L PARAMETER ............................... 4-5
THE -B PARAMETER ............................... 4-5
THE -P PARAMETER ............................... 4-6
CONVERTING A C64 PROGRAM ........................... 4-6
WHAT CAN AND CAN'T BE CONVERTED .................... 4-10
NOTE TO CONVERTERS ................................. 4-11
UTILITIES .............................................. 5-1
CONVENTIONS FOR THE CLI BASED UTILITIES ............ 5-2
64Tools ............................................ 5-3
DRIVE GADGET ................................... 5-3
PATTERN GADGET ................................. 5-3
NEW DISK GADGET ................................ 5-4
FILE GADGETS ................................... 5-4
INCLUDE ALL GADGET ............................. 5-4
EXCLUDE ALL GADGET ............................. 5-4
DESTINATION GADGET ............................. 5-4
START GADGET ................................... 5-4
AMIGATO64 GADGET ............................... 5-5
64STATUS GADGET ................................ 5-5
64CMD GADGET ................................... 5-5
64PRINT GADGET ................................. 5-5
STRIPLOADADDR GADGET ........................... 5-5
PET2ASCII GADGET ............................... 5-5
ASCII2PET GADGET ............................... 5-6
64Cmd .............................................. 5-7
64Dir .............................................. 5-8
64Print ............................................ 5-9
64Status ........................................... 5-10
64ToAmiga .......................................... 5-11
AmigaTo64 .......................................... 5-12
GrabGO64ROMs ....................................... 5-13
Pet2ASCII .......................................... 5-14
ASCII2Pet .......................................... 5-15
PrintFile .......................................... 5-16
StripLoadAddr ...................................... 5-17
C64 PROGRAMS ....................................... 5-18
SaveROMs ....................................... 5-19
64Colors ....................................... 5-19
TECHNICAL .............................................. 6-1
A64 AND MULTITASKING ............................... 6-1
A64 AND MEMORY ..................................... 6-1
680x0 SUPPORT ...................................... 6-1
A64 AND THE A3000 .................................. 6-2
ROMS ............................................... 6-2
WHAT IS ROM? ................................... 6-2
THE C64'S ROMS ................................. 6-2
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A64'S ROMS ..................................... 6-2
INSTALLING THE C64'S ROMS ...................... 6-5
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ................................. 7-1
INCOMPATIBILITIES .................................. 7-2
FAST LOADERS ................................... 7-2
CASSETTE PORT, USER PORT and CARTRIDGE PORT .... 7-3
SPRITES ........................................ 7-3
KNOWN BUGS ......................................... 7-3
PAR PORT BUG ................................... 7-3
SCREEN SHIFTED BUG ............................. 7-4
OTHER BUGS? .................................... 7-4
A64 ERRORS ......................................... 7-5
ERROR LIST ..................................... 7-6
HOW TO INTERPRET ERROR NUMBERS ............. 7-6
ERROR REPORT ....................................... 7-17
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