• Mapping the PET?

    From Harry Potter@3:770/3 to All on Tue Oct 3 08:18:30 2017
    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF format? I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Tue Oct 3 18:02:56 2017
    On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:18:30 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF
    format? I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

    You mean a memory map? Not that I know but that clarification might help
    others to help finding it.
    --
    Andreas
    You know you are a redneck if
    you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

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  • From Janne Johansson@2:221/6 to Andreas Kohlbach on Wed Oct 4 09:35:00 2017
    On 2017-10-03 17:02, Andreas Kohlbach : Harry Potter wrote:
    On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:18:30 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

    Is there such a book?  If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF
    format?  I tried Google but couldn't find it.  :(

    You mean a memory map? Not that I know but that clarification might help others to help finding it.

    Some start perhaps:

    http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/PETx/petmem.txt

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  • From Harry Potter@3:770/3 to Janne Johansson on Wed Oct 4 04:56:47 2017
    On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 2:50:27 AM UTC-4, Janne Johansson wrote:
    Some start perhaps:

    http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/PETx/petmem.txt

    That's good, but I need more kernal entries, i.e. for setting cursor line and homing the cursor.

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  • From mhsmisc71@gmail.com@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Wed Oct 4 07:52:46 2017
    On Tuesday, 3 October 2017 11:18:30 UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF format?
    I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

    Lots of good books here:
    http://www.bombjack.org/kim-pet/books-kim-pet.htm

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  • From Harry Potter@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Thu Oct 5 06:49:35 2017
    On Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 9:48:43 AM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
    I don't want to go through the trouble to download several books in search of
    one with the kernal map. Which one(s) contain the info?

    BTW, I'm asking so I can add PET support to CBMSimpleIO.

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  • From Harry Potter@3:770/3 to mhsm...@gmail.com on Thu Oct 5 06:48:41 2017
    On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10:52:47 AM UTC-4, mhsm...@gmail.com wrote:
    Lots of good books here:
    http://www.bombjack.org/kim-pet/books-kim-pet.htm

    I don't want to go through the trouble to download several books in search of one with the kernal map. Which one(s) contain the info?

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Thu Oct 5 17:37:24 2017
    On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 06:48:41 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

    On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10:52:47 AM UTC-4, mhsm...@gmail.com wrote:
    Lots of good books here:
    http://www.bombjack.org/kim-pet/books-kim-pet.htm

    I don't want to go through the trouble to download several books in
    search of one with the kernal map. Which one(s) contain the info?

    I tried to help but failed. I was thinking what you are looking for is
    called "firmware" or "kernal routines", but both web searches only showed
    up the link already posted queering with "PET" and ended up at a dead end otherwise.

    For the Commodore 64 on the other hand they are easily to find.

    If everything else fails, look through archive.org for "PET
    Gazette". Suppose this magazine got to have covered them at some point in
    the late 70s, being a purely PET focused magazine at that time.

    Without opening a new thread. You could have a "PC speaker" sound on the
    PET. No idea if this was widely used. But since a lot of the hardware was imported to all other 8Bit Commodore computers following the PET you
    could have it there too, by connecting some pins from the user- (or
    expansion?) port to an external speaker. But no one really did this
    because starting with the VIC-20 you had a dedicated sound chip built in.
    --
    Andreas
    You know you are a redneck if
    you own more cowboy boots than sneakers.

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  • From Harry Potter@3:770/3 to All on Thu Oct 5 15:08:49 2017
    All I want are a list of the editor kernal routines and instructions on how to use them.

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  • From Amigoat@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Sun Oct 15 21:04:52 2017
    On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 11:18:30 AM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF format?
    I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

    Go to http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/transactor/transactor.htm
    and download Volume 4 Issue 5. See pages43, 55-57.

    Is this what you are looking for?

    Ernie

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  • From chitselb@3:770/3 to Harry Potter on Fri Oct 27 00:12:51 2017
    On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 11:18:30 AM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF format?
    I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

    I would heartily recommend Raeto West's "Programming the Commodore PET" as well
    as his similarly titled works for the VIC-20 and C=64, all easily found in pdf

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  • From J.B. Wood@3:770/3 to chitselb on Mon Oct 30 06:42:36 2017
    On 10/27/2017 03:12 AM, chitselb wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 11:18:30 AM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
    Is there such a book? If there is, where can I get it online in .PDF format? I tried Google but couldn't find it. :(

    I would heartily recommend Raeto West's "Programming the Commodore PET" as
    well as his similarly titled works for the VIC-20 and C=64, all easily found in
    pdf


    I have both of West's books and the most detailed of the two is the one
    on the PET (a lot of the stuff also applies to the C-64). For
    specifically a C-64, his book dedicated to that platform is the best
    I've ever seen for an "under the hood" look at C-64 architecture and
    operation. For something akin to that detail you probably have to
    browse through the Transactor mag issues. Commodore's Programmer's
    Reference is also good but hardly a complete look. Keep in mind these
    books are dedicated to the main platform, not peripherals like the 1541
    disk drive (an exception is game/exrom cart operation). IIRC Jim
    Butterfield also produced a detailed C-64 memory map and usage chart but
    I'm unsure where that was published. Sincerely,

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    J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

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  • From Janne Johansson@2:221/6 to J.B. Wood on Mon Oct 30 14:20:26 2017
    On 2017-10-30 05:42, J.B. Wood : chitselb wrote:
    Keep in mind these
    books are dedicated to the main platform, not peripherals like the 1541
    disk drive (an exception is game/exrom cart operation).  IIRC Jim Butterfield also produced a detailed C-64 memory map and usage chart but
    I'm unsure where that was published.  Sincerely,

    Wonder if it was in Compute!, have a slight recollection of seeing (and
    using) a memory map from it, and he did write good articles for Compute!
    at the time.

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