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	This was posted earlier as part of a reply to a specific
question about PETSCII to cbm "screen code" conversions, but I
don't think it made it out of San Diego.

There exists a book, Title: "Inside the Commodore 64"
		     Author: Milton Bathurst
		     Publisher: DataCap
				12 Trixhai
				4545 Feneur
				Belgium
		     Copyright 1983
		     Price: (I paid) $19.95
which purports, and indeed seems to be, a complete, detailed,
commented and cross-referenced listing of the ROM contents
of the C64.  Judging from all the discussion about groping
around inside the ROM, I guess it must not have a wide
distribution.  It's fairly poorly printed (but legible) and
worse bound, but it sure beats dissasembling machine code.

John Wright
Chem. Dept. (B-014)
U. of Calif, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
re: ROMantics [message #62538 is a reply to message #60311] Tue, 14 May 2013 17:23 Go to previous message
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The first time this article was posted, somebody posted a followup
question that I never saw answered:

Where in the U.S. can we get it?

Some of us are wary of transoceanic mail.
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				--Bill Buie
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Regarding the book "Inside the Commodore 64 (tm)", by Milton
Bathurst, published in Europe, which seems to be a complete,
well commented, cross-referenced, and reasonably accurate
listing of the contents of the C-64's ROM:
I purchased it at a place here in San Diego,
	Computer Outlet
	5857 Mission Gorge Rd.
	San Diego, CA 92120
	(619) 282-6200

I have no idea if the book is still available, because I haven't been
back there for several months.  They advertise the avalilability
of a free catalog in ads in local computer papers.

The only errors I have found so far are in the comments.
In the routines for handling the serial bus, they have
reversed the sense of the various lines; e.g., the
routine which they say sets the serial data line high, actually
sets it low.  Apparently they looked only at the code, and
didn't take into account the inverter-buffers which actually drive
the serial lines.

				John Wright
				Dept. of Chemistry, UCSD
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