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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)