====== Books on C64 programming ======

This section contains various books related to C64 programming.
Similar to the [[magazines:start|Magazines section]] this section of the wiki consists of material which has once been released as wholes, not intended to be modified. This should be respected, and corrections/comments and so on should rather be put ouside the texts than inside.

Thanks to Fungus for supplying these books.

It should be noted that a huge bunch of useful books are available at [[http://project64.c64.org|Project64]] and [[http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/|DLH's site]]. Check them!


====== PDF books ======

All these books are OCR'ed, so you can actually search for text snippets in them, even though they are shown as scanned images in your PDF reader. 


===== Various C64/C128 =====

  * {{https://codebase64.org/books/mapping-the-64.pdf|Mapping the 64}}
  * {{https://codebase64.org/books/mapping-the-128.pdf|Mapping the 128}}
  * {{https://codebase64.org/books/c128-programmers-reference-guide.pdf|C128 Programmers Reference Guide}}
  * {{https://codebase64.org/books/machine-language-for-the-commodore64.pdf|Machine Language for the Commodore 64}}
  * {{https://codebase64.org/books/inside-commodore-dos.pdf|Inside Commodore DOS}}
  * [[https://ahesselbom.se/pages/commodorebasic20.html|Commodore BASIC 2.0 second release för Commodore 64 och VIC-20]] - Book in Swedish by Anders Hesselbom

===== 1541 =====

  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/anatomy-of-the-1541-disk-drive.pdf|Anatomy of the 1541 disk drive}}
  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/commodore-1541-troubleshooting-and-repair-guide.pdf|Commodore 1541 Troubleshooting and Repair Guide}}

===== Cracking/Protection =====
These books, and additional software complementing them, are available [[http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/onrequest.html|here]].
  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/the-kracker-jax-revealed-trilogy.pdf|Kracker Jax Revealed Trilogy}}
  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/program-protection-manual-volume-1.pdf|Program Protection Manual Volume 1}} (3.6 mb)
  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/program-protection-manual-volume-2.pdf|Program Protection Manual Volume 2}} (11.3 mb)
===== Third party topics =====

  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/c64-comal-reference-guide.pdf|C-64 COMAL Reference Guide}}
  * {{http://codebase64.org/books/c64-cpm-operating-system-users-guide.pdf|Commodore 64 CP-M Operating System - Users Guide}}
====== Other docs ======

  * [[books:hardware diagnostics|Hardware diagnostics]] - Commodore docs