Editing Using the 64

'''''Using the 64''''' is a book by Peter Gerrard in the Duckworth Home Computing series, published in London by Gerald Duckworth & Co. It was first published in September 1983; the hosted scan is the second impression of November 1983. ISBN 0-7156-1777-X.<ref name="tp">Peter Gerrard, ''Using the 64'' (Duckworth, 1983), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 5-6).</ref> The numbered pages run to 328.<ref name="idx">Gerrard, ''Using the 64'', Index, pp. 327-328 (PDF pp. 337-338).</ref>

The book runs through BASIC and machine code on the [[Commodore 64]], then covers colour, high-resolution and sprite graphics, sound and the common peripherals. The last three chapters describe the four main chips: the 6566 VIC-II, the 6581 SID, the 6510 processor and the 6526 CIA. The appendixes include memory maps, BASIC and 6510 instruction references, screen codes and a listing of an assembler/disassembler.<ref name="pref">Gerrard, ''Using the 64'', Preface (PDF p. 9).</ref><ref name="toc">Gerrard, ''Using the 64'', Contents (PDF p. 7).</ref> Appendix E gives the pin assignments of the control ports, cartridge expansion slot, audio/video socket, serial port, cassette port and user port, with the 100 mA limit on the +5 V and 9 V AC pins.<ref name="appe">Gerrard, ''Using the 64'', Appendix E: Pinouts for Input/Output, pp. 323-325 (PDF pp. 333-335).</ref>

== Contents ==
Page numbers are from the book's contents list.<ref name="toc" />
* 1: An Introduction to Basic Programming, p. 1
* 2: More Basic Programming, p. 41
* 3: An Introduction to Machine Code Programming, p. 69
* 4: Colour on the Commodore 64, p. 103
* 5: High Resolution and Sprite Graphics, p. 108
* 6: Sound on the Commodore 64, p. 148
* 7: Peripheral Support, p. 175
* 8: 6500 Chips in General and the 6566 in Particular, p. 201
* 9: The 6581 Sound Interface Device, p. 229
* 10: The 6510 and 6526 Input/Output Chips, p. 250
* Appendixes, p. 273 (A: Commodore 64 Memory Maps; B: The Basic Language; C: Machine Code Instruction Set; D: Miscellaneous, including screen display codes; E: Pinouts for Input/Output)
* Index, p. 327

== What this book does not contain ==
Apart from the connector pinouts in Appendix E it is a programming book. It has no schematic, parts list or component values; for those use the [[Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual]]. The same author's ''[[Sprites & Sound on the 64|Sprites & Sound on the 64]]'' is in the same series.

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