Compute!’s first book of the Commodore 128

✍ Scribed by Compute! Publications inc.

• Publisher: Compute! Publications
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Series: Compute! books publication
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword                                v

Chapter 1. Programming                  1
Exploring BASIC 7.0
     Todd Heimarck                      3
Save-with-Replace: Debugged at Last
     P. A. Slaymaker                   17
Dynamic Keyboard
     Jim Butterfield                   28
Jump Search
     Jerry Sturdivant                  37
Coder-Decoder
     W. M. Shockley                    40
Exploring the 128's Monitor
     Richard Mansfield                 43
Important 128 Memory Locations
     Jim Butterfield                   46
All About CP/M on the 128
     Howard Golk                       51

Chapter 2. Sound and Graphics          61
Windows on the 128
   Jim Vaughan                         63
Advanced Commodore 128 Video
    Jim Butterfield                    69
Programming Music and Sound
    Philip I. Nelson                   74
Sound and Music
    Philip I. Nelson                   81
Chapter 3. Games                       99
Orbitron

    Mark Tuttle and Kevin Mykytyn
Litter Patrol
                                      101

    Charles Brannon                   110
Word Search
   Michael B. Williams
   128 Version by Patrick Parrish     120

Switchbox
Todd Heitnarck 126
Lexitron
Ron Wilson 135

Chapter 4. Utilities 141
MetaBASIC: Programmer's Problem Solver
Kevin Mykytyn 143
REM Highlighter
Don A. Ellis 154
Blick
Plummer Hensley 157
Word Counter
Thomas K. Tucker 159

Chapter 5. Peripherals 163
Storage and Display 165
Disk Commands
Todd Heitnarck 170
Cataloger
Kevin Mykytyn 180
Autoboot
Steve Stiglich 186

Appendices 195
A. How to Type In Programs 197
B. The Automatic Proofreader
Philip I. Nelson 199
C. Machine Language Editor, MLX
Ottis R. Cowper 203

Index 213

Disk Coupon 217