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The Working Commodore 64

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The Working Commodore 64: A library of practical subroutines and programs is a book by David Lawrence, published in London by Sunshine Books (an imprint of Scot Press). It was first published in February 1983; the hosted scan is from a printing after the third reprint of October 1983. ISBN 0-946408-02-5.[1] The numbered pages in this printing run to 176. The British Library record gives 137 pages.[2]

It is a collection of BASIC application programs for the Commodore 64, written in modules that are tested as they are typed in and can be reused in the reader's own programs. Lawrence based its structure on two earlier books in the same series for other machines.[3] The programs include a clock, a graph plotter and a simple word processor; merge, delete and renumber tools; a character, sprite and bitmap graphics set; the Unifile filing system; educational programs; banking, accounts and budget programs; and a music chapter.[4]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[4]

  • Calling up Commodore, p. 9
  • 1: Good things in small packages: Clock, p. 11; Graph, p. 16; Texted, p. 22
  • 2: Programming tools: Merge, p. 31; Delete, p. 33; Renumber, p. 35
  • 3: The colourful 64: Artist, p. 41; Characters, p. 50; Sprites, p. 60; Hi-Res, p. 69
  • 4: The 64 as secretary: Unifile, p. 77; Unifile II, p. 89; Nnumber, p. 101
  • 5: Home education: MultiQ, p. 111; Words, p. 119; Typist, p. 125
  • 6: High micro-finance: Banker, p. 131; Accountant, p. 139; Budget, p. 148
  • 7: Music, p. 163

What this book does not contain

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It is a book of program listings. It has no schematics, parts lists or component values; for those use the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual.

Download: Lawrence The Working Commodore 64.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ David Lawrence, The Working Commodore 64 (Sunshine Books, 1983), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 3-4).
  2. ↑ Open Library, The working Commodore 64, record OL15317885M, from British Library catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  3. ↑ Lawrence, The Working Commodore 64, Calling up Commodore, p. 9 (PDF p. 11).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lawrence, The Working Commodore 64, Contents and Contents in detail (PDF pp. 5-8).
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