Supercharge your Commodore 64 - Revision history

Josh: Add ISBN from copyright page; extent is 151 numbered pages, not 165 (PDF length); contents list; describe from the introduction; cut boilerplate

2026-10-01T08:26:48Z

Add ISBN from copyright page; extent is 151 numbered pages, not 165 (PDF length); contents list; describe from the introduction; cut boilerplate

← Older revision		Revision as of 09:26, 1 October 2026
Line 1:		Line 1:
	'''''Supercharge Your Commodore 64: Ready-Made Machine Language Routines''''' by '''~~Barry~~ Thomas''~~' is a programming book for the [[~~Commodore 64]], ~~165 pages~~, ~~published by Melbourne House Publishers, 1984~~.		'''''Supercharge Your Commodore 64: Ready-Made Machine Language Routines''''' is a 1984 book by Barry Thomas, published by Melbourne House (Tring, Hertfordshire, with companies in Nashville and South Melbourne). ISBN 0-86161-174-8.<ref name="tp">Barry Thomas, ''Supercharge Your Commodore 64: Ready-Made Machine Language Routines'' (Melbourne House, 1984), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 5-6).</ref> The numbered pages run to 151.<ref name="idx">Thomas, ''Supercharge Your Commodore 64'', Index, pp. 149-151 (PDF pp. 157-159).</ref>

	~~Ready-made~~ machine language routines.		It is a collection of short machine language routines for the [[Commodore 64]] to be called from BASIC: high-resolution graphics, sound and sprite routines, and utilities that include a BASIC renumber program and a 31-byte bubble sort. The opening chapters explain binary and hexadecimal numbers and the 6510 processor, and one chapter covers loading, saving and using the routines.<ref name="intro">Thomas, ''Supercharge Your Commodore 64'', Introduction, p. 1 (PDF p. 9).</ref>

	== ~~What this~~ book ~~is not =~~=		== Contents ==
			Page numbers are from the book's contents list.<ref name="toc">Thomas, ''Supercharge Your Commodore 64'', Contents (PDF p. 7).</ref>
			* Introduction, p. 1
			* Chapter 1: Computer Numbers, p. 3
			* Chapter 2: Machine Language Explained, p. 13
			* Chapter 3: Using Machine Language, p. 21
			* Chapter 4: Sound Ideas, p. 29
			* Chapter 5: Bit Mapping, p. 57
			* Chapter 6: Sprite Might, p. 85
			* Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Utilities, p. 107
			* Appendix A: Number-Base Conversions, p. 131
			* Appendix B: Memory Map, p. 135
			* Appendix C: Useful Addresses, p. 137
			* Appendix D: Useful ROM Routines, p. 139
			* Appendix E: 6510 Instruction Set, p. 141
			* Appendix F: Assemblers, p. 143
			* Appendix G: Further Reading, p. 147
			* Index, p. 149

	~~'''~~It is a programming book~~, not a service document~~.~~'''~~ It ~~carries '''~~no schematics, no parts ~~list, no~~ component values ~~and no board layouts''', and it is not a source~~ for ~~a repair figure. Citing it for a capacitor value, a voltage rating or a chip location would be citing~~ the ~~wrong kind of document~~.		== What this book does not contain ==
			It is a programming book. It has no schematics, parts lists or component values; for those use the [[Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual]].

	~~For component~~-~~level data on the machine use Commodore's own documentation instead:~~		<pdf> File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_-600dpi--ocr-.pdf </pdf>

	* [[Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual]] — parts lists, board identification and schematics for every mainboard revision		Download: [[:File:MelbourneHouse Supercharge your Commodore 64 -600dpi--ocr-.pdf\|MelbourneHouse Supercharge your Commodore 64 -600dpi--ocr-.pdf]]
	* [[Commodore 64 Technical Manual and Parts List]] — the drawing package, P/N 990439
	* [[Commodore 64 Capacitor Replacement Guide]] — the wiki's component list, built from those two

	~~== Other books hosted here ==~~

	~~This is one of 60 Commodore books on this wiki. See~~ [[:~~Category~~:Commodore ~~Books]] for the annotated index, which groups them by what they are for and marks the handful that do carry hardware data~~.

	<pdf~~> File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_~~-600dpi--ocr-.pdf ~~</pdf>~~

	~~Download '''Supercharge your Commodore 64''' here: [[:File:MelbourneHouse Supercharge your Commodore 64 -600dpi--ocr-.pdf\|MelbourneHouse Supercharge your Commodore 64 -600dpi--ocr-.pdf]]~~		== References ==
			<references />

	[[Category:Commodore Documentation]]		[[Category:Commodore Documentation]]
	[[Category:Commodore Books]]		[[Category:Commodore Books]]

Josh: P4 documentation drive: rewrite doc-holder as a real documentation page - printed title, author, publisher, year, ISBN and page count, what the book covers, and a plain statement that it is not a repair source, pointing at Commodore's own service documentation instead

2026-09-25T00:26:40Z

P4 documentation drive: rewrite doc-holder as a real documentation page - printed title, author, publisher, year, ISBN and page count, what the book covers, and a plain statement that it is not a repair source, pointing at Commodore's own service documentation instead

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<pdf> File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf </pdf>
+'''''Supercharge Your Commodore 64: Ready-Made Machine Language Routines''''' by '''Barry Thomas''' is a programming book for the [[Commodore 64]], 165 pages, published by Melbourne House Publishers, 1984.
-Download '''Supercharge your Commodore 64''' here: [[:File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf|MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf]]
+Ready-made machine language routines.
 [[Category:Commodore Documentation]]
 [[Category:Commodore Books]]

Josh: Auto-created Commodore book documentation page

2025-04-24T09:25:49Z

Auto-created Commodore book documentation page

New page

<pdf> File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf </pdf>

Download '''Supercharge your Commodore 64''' here: [[:File:MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf|MelbourneHouse_Supercharge_your_Commodore_64_[600dpi][ocr].pdf]]

[[Category:Commodore Documentation]]
[[Category:Commodore Books]]