Compute!’s first book of the Commodore 128

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