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Here you will find some Commodore 128 related programming information. Most of these documents were downloaded from Herne Data System's CP/M page http://www.herne.com/cpm.htm.

Files

1571-dos.info.gz 2009-08-18 22234
Basic information about the disk operating system in the 1571 drive

1571-formatting-mfm.gz 2009-08-18 3031
Tells how to format MFM disks on the 1571.

640x480-vdc.gz 2009-08-18 1410
Examples of programming 640x480 graphics and 80x50 text with the VDC
in the C128. The graphics requires 64 kB of VDC RAM.

basic-diskcommands.gz 2009-08-18 20915
Using disk commands from BASIC

batch-programming.gz 2009-08-18 5796
Batch programming on the C128 (and C64 and VIC-20). (Read data from a disk
file as if it was typed in from the keyboard.)

burstmode-basic.gz 2009-08-18 2715
How to use the 1571 Burst mode from BASIC
burstmode-intro.gz 2009-08-18 10800
Introduction to the Burst mode
burstmode-read.gz 2009-08-18 6934
Burst mode documentation, Read protocol
burstmode-write.gz 2009-08-18 5166
Burst mode documentation, Write protocol

c128-autobooting.gz 2009-08-18 2584
Auto Booting on C-128

c128_software_specs.pdf 2019-02-25 296078
C128 Software Specification

intro.1571-1581.gz 2009-08-18 5845
Introduction to the 1571 and 1581 drives

tuning-vdc-performance.gz 2009-08-18 3106
Tuning the performance of the VDC chip.

using-files.gz 2009-08-18 24831
Effective use of files

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