C= Hacking Table of Contents

“Beginning ML - Part 1”, Craig Taylor. Documented and undocumented opcodes

“Simple Hires Line Drawing Package for the C-128 80-Column Screen”, Craig Bruce. Routines to move pixel/draw line, activate graphics/clear screen, restore old character set, desc. of some VDC registers, floating point numbers.

“Beginning ML - Part 2”, Craig Taylor. Indexed addressing.

“An in-depth look at the 8563 Video Chip on the C= 128”, Craig Taylor. VDC schematics, register descriptions, programming descriptions.

“FILE SPLIITER”, Mark Lawrence. Turbo Pascal code to split a file.

“Banking on GEOS”, Robert Knop. Memory management, programming under GEOS 128.

“DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION FOR THE 128: Breaking the 64K barrier”, Craig Bruce. Like the title says :). Includes memory management kernal from ZED 128, sorting routine, etc.

“Learning ML - Part 3”, Craig Taylor. Kernal routines, reading the directory, reading the error channel.

“The Demo Corner: Missing Cycles”, Pasi 'Albert' Ojala. Raster timings, bad lines, sprites, demonstration program.

“Kernal 64/128”, Craig Taylor. Kernal routines, listing and description.

“64K VDC RAM and an alternate GEOS128 Background Screen”, Robert Knop. Programming GEOS128.

“GeoPaint File Format”, Bruce Vrieling. Self explanatory.

“Rasters: What They Are And How To Use Them”, Bruce Vrieling. Interrupts, rasters, example code.

“Bursting your 128: The Fastload Burst Command”, Craig Bruce. Programming 1571 and 1581 drives, bust code library.

“Learning ML - Part 4”, Craig Taylor. Development of a Space Invaders game (for the 64 and 128), part 1. Organization, custom characters (VIC and VDC), title screen, debugging, memory considerations.

“FLI - More Color To The Screen”, Pasi Ojala. VIC info, and of course an explanation of FLI graphics.

“RS-232 Converter”, Warren Tustin. Build a userport→RS-232 converter.

“Introduction to the VIC-II”, Pasi Ojala. VIC features and registers.

“LITTLE RED READER: MS-DOS file reader for the 128 and 1571/81 drives”, Craig Bruce. Like the title says :) All source included/explained or course.

“Mail Server Documentation”, Craig Taylor. Outdated.

“The Demo Corner: Stretching Sprites”, Pasi Ojala. How to trick VIC into making some very large sprites.

“Rob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented, and Explained”, Anthony McSweeny. Yet another self-explanatory title.

“ZPM3 and ZCCP Enhancements for CP/M Plus from Simeon Cran”, Randy Winchester. Nice BIOS and BDOS enhancements for CP/M folks.

“Multitasking on the C=128 Part 1”, Craig Taylor. Description of a multitasking kernal for the 128.

“LITTLE READ READER: MS-DOS file reader/WRITER for the C128 and 1571/81”, Craig Bruce. Expanding the program with the capability to write files.

“The Demo Corner: DYCP - Horizontal Scrolling”, Pasi Ojala of course :). Making character go up and down as well as right to left in scrolls, along with some awfully nice ASCII diagrams.

“Opening the Borders”, Pasi Ojala. How to remove the borders: top, bottom, and sides. Good stuff.

“A Heavy-Duty Power Supply for the C=64”, John Andrews. Schematics etc. for building - guess what? :) - a heavy duty power supply.

“LZW Compression”, Bill Lucier. Another title to make my job easy. Description+source.

“THREE-KEY ROLLOVER for the C=128 and C=64”, Craig Bruce. Modifying the KERNAL to use 3-key rollover (for you fast typists); gets rid of port #1 extraneous input, too. Neat!

“Commodore Trivia Corner”, Jim Brain.

“Internet Resources for the Commodore 64/128”, Craig Taylor. Intro to the internet; old ftp list.

“Hiding Kilobytes”, Marko Mäkelä Memory management and different memory configurations on the C=64, and lots of subtobics: hiding underneath I/O, sitting in the stack, freezer cartridges.

“FLD - Scrolling the screen”, Mark Klampar. Code to demonstrate FLD.

“Tech-tech - More resolution to vertical shift”, Pasi Ojala. Cool.

“ACE 128/64 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE”, Craig Bruce. Title explains it all.

“Trivia Corner”, Jim Brain.

“RS232 Convertor”, Walter Wickersham. Another RS-232 interface for you to build.

“Programming the Commodore RAM Expansion Units (REUs)”, Richard Hable. Description of REUs and how to program them.

“A Different Perspective: Three Dimensional Graphics on the C=64”, Stephen Judd, George Taylor. Rotations, projections, drawing lines, etc. and an awful lot of text and crappily formatted code.

“DESIGN OF A 'REAL' OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE 128: PART I”, Craig Bruce. Laying the groundwork for a new OS.

“Trivia Corner”, Jim Brain.

“A Different Perspective, Part II”, Stephen Judd, George Taylor. Hidden faces, filled faces, mega-fast multiply, and some reasonably formatted code.

“2D Graphics Toolbox - Circles”, Stephen Judd. An awfully neat circle drawing algorithm, if I do say so myself. (See also issue 10 or 11).

“AFLI-specs v1.0”, D'Arc/Topaz for Chief/Padua. Build upon FLI to get even more colors.

“Coding Tricks”, compiled from comp.sys.cbm. Neat. Includes stable raster code.

“C.S. Bruce Interview”, Craig Taylor. Neat.

“Aligning 1541 Drives”, Ward Shrake. Lots of good info.

“Trivia”, Jim Brain.

“BFLI - New Graphics Modes 2”, Pasi Ojala. Another FLI spinoff trick.

“Making stable raster routines (C64 and VIC-20)”, Marko Mäkelä How to make raster effects exactly where you want them (and how to mask an NMI too! :)

“A Different Perspective, part III”, by two old bums. Neat-o line drawing enhancement, general polygon routine, general hidden face removal, alternative filling method, and a misplaced and important addendum to the Circle routine in issue 9.

“Second SID Chip Installation”, Mark Dickenson. Add another SID to your setup.

“SOLVING LARGE SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS ON A C64 WITHOUT MEMORY”, Alan Jones. “Quartersolve” routine.

“The World of IRC - A new life for the C64/128”, Bill Lueck. What every 64 user should know about IRC.

“Swiftlink-232 Application Notes v1.0b”, CMD with source code by Craig Bruce. All about Swiftlink and how to program it.

“Design and implementation of a simple/efficient upload/download protocol”, Craig Bruce. Pretty neat protocol (FX) used by ACE.

“DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A 'REAL' OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE 128: Part II”, Craig Bruce. Further laying the groundwork for a multitasking microkernal OS.

“Hi Tech Trickery: Sample Dither”, George Taylor. Dither a digital sample to gain higher resolution.

“Speed up RAMLink transfers with the Double-DMA technique”, Doug Cotton. Super-fast RAMlink programming.

“The Graphics Toolbox: Ellipses”, Stephen L. Judd. Follow-up to the circle drawing algorithm, logarithmic division.

“Design and Implementation of an Advanced Text Editor”, Craig Bruce. Design and implementation of the very powerful ZED text editor used with ACE.

“Hacking Graphics: Let's get graphical”, Rick Mosdell. Hires file formats: DOODLE!, Koala.

“Errata”, fixes for 2nd SID chip and linear algebra article.

“RUN64: Moving to 64 Mode”, Doug Cotton. How to switch from 128 mode to 64 mode (and expect it to work on just about any machine).

“Polygonamy: A Study in Three Dimensions”, Stephen L. Judd. High speed 3D virtual worlds for the 64. (Binary up above).

“Underneath the hood of the SuperCPU”, Jim Brain. Description and details of the SuperCPU.

“Talking to TED: The MOS 7360/8360 Display IC's”, Levente Harsfalvi. Programming TED on the +4 and C-16 (reg. desc., etc.)

“HEAVY MATH - Part 0: History, Arithemtic, and Simple Algorithms”, Alan Jones. History, introduction, etc.

“OS/A65 - A Multitasking/Multithreading Operating System for 6502 Computers”, Andre Fachat. Design and implementation.

“Using UQWK with QWKRR128”, Gaelyne Moranec. Self-explanatory.

“Brad Templeton: The Programmer's Friend”, by Jim Lawless. An interview with Brad Templeton.

“Dim4: A Mind-Expanding Experience”, Stephen L. Judd. 4D graphics from a 4k contest. See above for source (all 115k of it) and executables (all 4k of it :).

“Exploiting the 65C816S CPU”, Jim Brain. Description of chip design, regs, addressing modes, etc. and some SuperCPU programming info.

“Using HTML on the Commodore, Part 1”, Jim Brain. Introduction to HTML and description of an HTML viewer for the 64.

“Creating 3D Dungeon Crawls”, Todd Elliott. How to do 3D dungeons a-la Bard's Tale.

“The Error Channel”, updates to Double-DMA article, TED programming, extra Polygonamy info.

“The Commodore Telnet BBS”, Bo Zimmerman. Make your C= telnettable.

“Menu Toolbox III”, Jeff Jones. User interface subroutines: menus, disk io, etc.

“The CMD Nirvana: The Guts and Glory”, Todd Elliott. Todd's souped-up 128D.

“Jim Butterfield: The Commodore Guru - An Interview”, Jim Lawless.

“Hi Tech Trickery”, Alan Jones. More descriptions of Linear Programming.

“Hacking BASICs”, Richard T. Cunningham. Detecting drives and selective goto in BASIC.

“Twiddling the Bits”, Ward Shrake. VIC-20 cartridge exploration and archiving.

“Click to Mode Switch: The 40-80 Mouse switch”, Michael Nausch. Hardware mouse mod, mollifying monitor madness.

“The Canonical List of Commodore Produced Products”, Jim Brain. v2.0

“Scott Ballantyne : Blazing into Forth”, Jim Lawless. Interview with author of Blazin' FORTH.

“Technical Information on the VIC-20”, Ward Shrake. Pinouts and technical notes.

“Hacking BASICs”, Dick Cunningham. BASIC tips on 64/128 compatibility.

“Twiddling the Bits”, Frank Kontros. Update of the DataPump UART project.

“PAL VIC20 goes NTSC”, by Timo Raita and Pasi 'Albert' Ojala. How to turn your PAL VIC20 into an NTSC VIC20.

“Starfields”, S. Judd. Making simple hires starfields.

“Milestones of C64 Data Compression”, by Pontus Berg. A short history of data compression on the 64.

“Compression Basics”, by Pasi Ojala. Part one of a two-part article on data compression, giving an introduction to and overview of data compression and related issues.

“3D for the Masses: Cool World and the 3D Library”, S. Judd. The mother of all 3D articles.

“SuperCPU software repair”, by S. Judd. SuperCPU-fixing.

“Pucrunch, part 2”, by Pasi Ojala. Continuation of article in issue 16. Discussion of pucrunch compression and decompression methods and code.

“VIC20 Disassembly Project”, by Richard Cini. First part of a complete ROM disassembly.

“NTSC/PAL-fixing, part 1”, Russel Reed, Robin Harbron, S. Judd. Robin and Steve fix a demo.

“The Herd Mentality”, Bil Herd. Lusty stories regaling the design and development of the C128.

“Data Structures 101”, by Pasi Ojala and S. Judd. Linked lists and a nifty insertion sort.

“Counting Sort”, Pasi Ojala. Discussion of the counting sort!

“VIC20 Disassembly Project”, by Richard Cini. Part II: Interrupts.

“GeoWrite128 disassembly notes”, Todd Elliot. Discussion of GEOS, Todd's patches to geoWrite128 to work with more modern setups, and list of major geoWrite routines and entry points.

“NTSC/PAL-fixing, part 2: FLI and IFLI”, Russel Reed, Robin Harbron, S. Judd. Interactive tutorial on fixing FLI and IFLI graphics.

“Obj3d: The 3D object library”, S. Judd. Discussion of obj3d routines and example programs.

“Burst fastloader for the C64”, by Pasi Ojala. Hardware modification and code for burst-loading on a 64.

“8000's User Port and Centronics Printers”, by Ken Ross. The PET 8000's user port, and how to use it to drive printers.

“Sex, lies, and microkernal-based 65816 native OSes, part 1”, by Jolse Maginnis. OS design in general and JOS design in detail.

“VIC20 Disassembly Project”, by Richard Cini. Part III: Interrupts, continued (UDTIM, SCNKEY, etc.)

“Decoding JPEGs”, by S. Judd. Description of JPEG decoding process, especially IDCT.

“Bringing 'true-color' images to the 64”, by Adrian Gonzalez. Floyd-Steinberg dithering and the IFLI renderer used in JPZ.

“Super/Turbo CPU VDC Hack”, Henry Sopko. Hardware mod to access the VDC using a SuperCPU64 or TurboCPU.

“16K Memory Expansion for the VIC-20”, Per Olofsson. Hardware mod to add memory to the VIC-20.

“Quick Quadratic Splines”, S. Judd. Algorithms to add curves and animations to programs.

“VIC-20 Kernal ROM Disassembly Project”, Richard Cini. Part IV: device I/O routines.

“MODs and Digital Mixing”, Jolse Maginnis. How to play MODs on a 64.

“The C64 Digi”, Robin Harbron, Levente Hársfalvi, Stephen Judd. Playing digis on the 64: theory, SID internals, $d418 digis, and Pulse Width Modulation.

“Pulse Width Modulation, continued”, Various. Tying up some loose ends.

“Introducing Full-Screen IFLI Mode With a SuperCPU”, Todd Elliot. Making those first three columns with FLI available.

“VIC-20 Kernal Disassembly Project, Part IV”, Richard Cini. Making sense out of the tape drive code.