jmw@sdchema.UUCP (02/27/84)
This was posted earlier as part of a reply to a specific question about PETSCII to cbm "screen code" conversions, but I don't think it made it out of San Diego. There exists a book, Title: "Inside the Commodore 64" Author: Milton Bathurst Publisher: DataCap 12 Trixhai 4545 Feneur Belgium Copyright 1983 Price: (I paid) $19.95 which purports, and indeed seems to be, a complete, detailed, commented and cross-referenced listing of the ROM contents of the C64. Judging from all the discussion about groping around inside the ROM, I guess it must not have a wide distribution. It's fairly poorly printed (but legible) and worse bound, but it sure beats dissasembling machine code. John Wright Chem. Dept. (B-014) U. of Calif, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093
miller@uiucdcs.UUCP (miller ) (03/02/84)
#R:sdchema:-106400:uiucdcs:36100055:000:133 uiucdcs!miller Mar 1 16:22:00 1984 Belgium?? Any idea where in the US we can pick this up if our local Commodore dealer doesn't carry it? A. Ray Miller Univ Illinois
wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (03/28/84)
-- The first time this article was posted, somebody posted a followup question that I never saw answered: Where in the U.S. can we get it? Some of us are wary of transoceanic mail. -- --Bill Buie
jmw@sdchema.UUCP (04/05/84)
<sacrifice to the line-eating demon?> Regarding the book "Inside the Commodore 64 (tm)", by Milton Bathurst, published in Europe, which seems to be a complete, well commented, cross-referenced, and reasonably accurate listing of the contents of the C-64's ROM: I purchased it at a place here in San Diego, Computer Outlet 5857 Mission Gorge Rd. San Diego, CA 92120 (619) 282-6200 I have no idea if the book is still available, because I haven't been back there for several months. They advertise the avalilability of a free catalog in ads in local computer papers. The only errors I have found so far are in the comments. In the routines for handling the serial bus, they have reversed the sense of the various lines; e.g., the routine which they say sets the serial data line high, actually sets it low. Apparently they looked only at the code, and didn't take into account the inverter-buffers which actually drive the serial lines. John Wright Dept. of Chemistry, UCSD