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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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8