Graphics Designer 64 (Abacus) is a graphics design aid and slide show maker for the Commodore 64

You know how much fun it can be to make your own banners, signs, cards and letterhead with The PrintShop.  Well, now you can make your creations look even better with the GRAPHICS EXPANDER!

Welcome to Graphics Master, the advanced software program that allows you to create high-resolution graphics for your home, business, school, or club.  You can draw graphs, charts, cartoons - in fact, almost any visual representation you need - with ease and precision. 

Using a few simple commands, Graphics Master creates and stores your drawing for later viewing or printing.  In a matter of minutes, Graphics Master can transform the casual doodler into a polished graphics artist.

Introducing the Graphics Scrapbook an entire collection of graphics each covering a different theme.  Create cards, signs, invitations, stationery and banners using Graphics Scrapbook and The Print Shop and PrintMaster in over 100 impressively drawn images on each disk.  Chapter III: SCHOOL covers every angle from geometry to driver's ed.  From New Year's Day to birthdays.  From raising funds to raising the roof.  From campus elections to field trips.

The Commodore 128 provides a very powerful and friendly editor for BASIC programs.  Unfortunately, certain features which are normally regarded as essential in a programmers' editor have unaccountably been omitted by CBM.  In particular, there is no way on the 128 to find a string in a BASIC program much less to search for and replace one string by another.

The HACK-PACK toolkit attempts to fill this need.  Once loaded, the HACK-PACK toolkit fits unobtrusively into an area at the top of RAM in bank 0.  From this elevated position it provides the programmer with a number of totally new editing features.  The HACK-PACK toolkit does not waste memory by providing nonsense commands that no one ever uses such as BEEP and FLASH!  Instead it adds to BASIC eight really useful commands, all designed to improve programming efficiency and productivity.

C64-FORTH is a fourth-generation programming language that in many respects is very different from other lanquages. In relation to its size, its power is unequalled. In just 8K, a typical minicomputer FORTH version supplies structured, compact and extremely fast code, virtual memory, a resident macro assembler and a resident editor, as well as multitasking capability. FORTH is even able to extend itself and its compiler. It is a metalanguage.

Welcome to the MATH MODULE of the HAYDEN SCORE IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE SAT, one of three modules designed to help you raise your SAT scores. This Algebra Section is an effective tool to begin your  preparation for the Mathematical section of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. The system is easy to operate so that you can concentrate on its content. All of the information you need to complete examples or answer test questions appears on screen, as do instructions for moving from one part of the program to onother. More detailed explanations follow in this manual. You can also read the instructions on screen by selecting the System User's Guide option after you load the program.

The ALGEBRA SECTION provides instruction and practice in solving the entire range of algebra problems of the types found on the SAT: linear and literal equations, systems of linear equations, quadratic and radical equations, and reducing algebraic fractions. In addition, this manual contains an ANALYSIS OF THE SAT which gives you insight into the workings of the actual exam - its organization and scoring, plus test-taking strategies and tips for
raising your scores.

The other areas in the Mathematical section of the SAT are Geometry and Quantitative Comparisons and Word Problems; separate sections in the Hayden System provide review material in these areas.

Welcome to the GEOMETRY MODULE of the HAYDEN SAT SCORE IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM, one of six modules designed to help you raise your SAT scores. This Geometry Module is an effective tool to begin your
preparation for the Mathematical section of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. The system is easy to operate so that you can concentrate on its content. All of the information you need to complete examples or answer test questions
appears on screen, as do instructions for moving from one part of the program to another. More detailed explanations follow in this manual. You can also read the instructions on screen by selecting the System User's Guide option after you load the program.

This GEOMETRY MODULE provides instruction and practice in solving the entire range of geometry problems found on the SAT. All figures needed to solve the problems are illustrated on the screen.

Welcome to the MATH MODULE of the HAYDEN SCORE IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE SAT* one of three modules designed to help you raise your SAT scores. This Quantitative Comparisons and Word Problems Section is an effective tool to use in your preparation for the Mathematical section of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. The system is easy to operate so that you can concentrate on its content. All of the information you need to complete examples or answer test questions appears on screen, as do instructions for moving from one part of the program to another. More detailed explanations follow in this manual. You can also read the instructions on screen by
selecting the System User's Guide option offer you load the program.

The QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS AND WORD PROBLEMS SECTION provides review material on the areas in the Mathematical section of the SAT exclusive of Algebra and Geometry which are separate sections in the Hayden System. Quantitative comparison problems - problems that emphasize reasoning skills used to determine which of two quantities is larger - improve skills in algebra and geometry as well as in
other areas of mathematics.

Your Commodore 64 will HELP You learn BASIC programming.

This program allows you to enter text Program Commands into the computer via the computer keyboard, then edit and format the text before printing it.

HESMON 64 is a Machine Language Monitor for the Commodore 64.

Graphics BASIC gives you and your Commodore 64 a powerful extended BASIC.  You have over 100 new commands and features combining incredible power and flexibility with simplicity and readability.

This program is designed to give the user the ability to create detailed drawings and sketches.  There are basically two different types of CAD packages. The first type is based on bit mapped graphics. This means that all data entered into the program is stored in the bit mapped screen display.  The accuracy of the final product is therefore, limited to the resolution of your computer's display.  The second type, which includes this program, is object oriented.  In this type program, the data is stored in the form of individual lines, circles and text strings, not pixels to be turned on and off.  The drawing seen on the screen is a representation of this data scaled to whatever view the user has selected.  When you magnify or "zoom in on" an area in the first type of program,your display will consist of "fat" dots representing the bit, map. In this program, "zooming in" will actually increase the resolution of the area in question.

The Home Inventory package consists of two (2) parts designed to run on the minimum VIC to simplify the process of generating an inventory of the contents of your home.  Although this package is called Home Inventory, it can also be used for an inventory of your store or office, securities and financial holdings, personal library, etc. Its applications are unlimited.

The Home-Office Writer is a powerful word processor which speeds up your ability to write letters, reports and other text documents.

This program is one of our titles in the HOME ORGANIZER series. This series was designed specifically for the Commodore 64 home computer.  It is based on our professional database program called The Consultant (formerly Delphi's Oracle) which is one of the best selling database management systems for the Commodore 64.

Congratulatlons!  You've bought three excellent programs - a word processor, database manager and telecommunications program - for less than the price you would expect to pay for any one of them from anyone else! But you're not buying just run-of-the-mill software with HomePak; you've got yourself three of the best programs of their type on the market.

HomeWord is designed to lead you through all the steps of word processing with ease. This book will help; begin by browsing through it. You can use the table of contents and index to find specific things you want to know. Each page is labeled in the top corner to help you find what you're looking for.

Note - Looking for a disk image if anyone has it and would like to share.

This is a quick reference card for the HomeWord word processing program by Sierra-Online. 

HomeWord was a word processing program by Sierra-Online released in 1983.  I don't think this is the full manual, but it sure does help to use the program.  Thanks to one of our visitors for pointing out this could be found on archive.org.

Here's a link to the Commodore 64 HomeWord program if anyone's interested in giving it a spin.

HOMEWORK HELPER MATH provides students with a tool for understanding and solving word problems.  It teaches you the "how-to" of translating English sentences into mathematical equations, and techniques for getting correct answers.  It helps you solve your own homework problems .

Image BBS v1.0 Manual (Revised)

Documentation for the Commodore 64 BBS program called IMAGE.

INQUIRE PAC is designed to be user friendly for both the computer novice as well as the seasoned expert. It allows for the manipulation of up to 200 individual records with up to 15 distinct fields of information ranging from 1 character up to 250 characters.

INSTA-SPEED is a BASIC compiler for the CBM 64. The programs originate in the United Kingdom and are improved and upgraded versions of DTL BASIC COMPILER, developed for Commodore business computers.

The function of a compiler is to convert a program from its source form (ie. the form in which it is written) into a more efficient form that can run much faster than the original.

INSTA-SPEED has been specially optimized for the CBM 64 and it not only makes every BASIC program a lot faster but will also make each program significantly smaller, except for programs with only a few lines.

INSTA-SPEED is 100% compatible with CBM 64 BASIC. This means that any existing 8ASIC program can be compiled without any alteration, to produce a program that peforms exactly the same, and yet is much faster and requires less memory and disk space.

INSTA-SPEED is designed so that it can be people with no programming knowledge to existing programs. Yet for more experienced range of facilities is provided to enable potential of the CBM 64 to be realized.

Congratulations! you have just purchased the fastest, most versatile EDITOR ASSEMBLER on the market. lEA is capable of assembling up to 17k source fiIes in less then 4 seconds. Fourteen commands are added to the BASIC editor to create source files that can be assembled by lEA. Useful commands Include FIND. DELETE, RENUMBER, AUTO,UNNEW. APPEND, BLOCK SAVE, HEX TO DECIMAL, and DECIMAL TO HEX to name a few.

This is a super handy, one page cheat sheet for JiffyDOS 6.01 and DOS 5.1 by Stephen Lark (slark).  You can find the original source along with a lot of other great documents at Stephen's webiste slark.me/c64.

JiffyMON/64 is a unique and powerful machine language monitor for Commodore 64 and 128 (in 64 mode) computers equipped with the JiffyDOS speed-enhancement ROMs. Like other machine language monitors, JiffyMON lets you inspect and modify individual bytes in your computer's memory; assemble, disassemble, and execute 6510 assembler code programs; and also provides a number of features which assist in debugging and writing assembly language programs.

This fully re-typed and improved manual came from the excellent slark.me/c64 website.  Please visit them and check out the other fine reference material

Welcome to Kick Assembler, an advanced MOS 65xx assembler combined with a Java Script like script language.

* THE NIBBLER - Our powerful nibbler work• with aingle or dual 1571/1541 drives!

* FAST COPIER - Great for backing up your data disks or for use with Kracker Jax!

* FILE COPIER - This utility makes file maintenance and manipulation tasks easy!

* 1581 FAST COPIER - created for use with the new generation 3.5 inch disk drives!

* 1581 FILE COPIER - Transfer files with the new hlgh-speed 3.5 inch disk drives!

* MFM COPIER - Allows you to copy unprotected IBM and CP/M format disks!

* TIS EDITOR - Track and sector editor for 1541, 1571, and the new 1581 drives!

* ERROR SCANNER - Full featured error scanner with an on-screen display!

* DENSITY SCANNER - Allows you to check for altered densityes track by track!

* DIRECTORY EDITOR - This utlllly lets you alter and reorganize disk directoriesl

* KRACKER JAX - You also get 100 of our hottest, most popular parameters!

WelcometoTheHacker’sUtilityKit.Thisprogramrepresentsthefinestsetof diskexaminationandmanipulationtoolseverassembledintoonepackage.Weare confidentyouwillfindittobeoneofthemostusfuldisksinyourlibrary.Eachandeverymoduleincludedinthispackagehasbeenputthroughit’spaces inrealuse.Wefeelyou'llfindthemnotonlyextremelypowerful,butalsouser friendly.ManyextrashavebeenputintoTheHacker'sUtilityKit.Pleasebesuretoreadeachsegmentofthismanualbeforeusinganyofthetools.This willinsurethatyouobtainfulluseofeachandeveryfeature.

KWIK-LOAD! is a software utility program for the Commodore 64 or Executive 64 computer. It speeds up the way the disk drive reads information on a 5 1/4" floppy diskette. It will work with one or two Commodore 1541 disk drives. KWIK-COPY, a second program on the diskette, uses simple screen menus to guide you through otherwise complicated procedures. With KWIK-LOAD! and KWIK-COPY you can:

• Load programs and data more than 300% faster;
• Copy diskettes more than 300% faster;
• Test your disk drive for proper operating speed;
• Edit information on a diskette directly by track and sector;
• Display and write diskette directory information in alphabetical order; and
• Perform DOS (Disk Operating System) operations: format and validate disks, scratch and rename files.

Thanks to Anthony for providing this manual.  It's a bit rough because it's a scan of a photocopy, but I haven't seen it anywhere else on the net, so it's much appreciated.

The following manual is intended as a reference for both STANDARD Kyan Pascal and ADVANCED Kyan Pascal. Those chapters which apply only to STANDARD Kyan Pascal are marked (STANDARD); those chapters which apply only to ADVANCED Kyan Pascal are marked (ADVANCED). You will find that most chapters apply to both versions.

Thanks BlueCursor for the upload.

Laser Genius is a complete machine code development system for the Commodore 64.

With Chalk Board's PowerPad and Leo's'Lectric Paintbrush, drawing is exciting. You don't need paints, water or crayons.  You don't need scissors or glue. All you need is your imagination.  Your finger becomes an electric paint brush.  Drawing right on PowerPad, you see the design on your TV screen.  You can use Leo's 'Lectric Paintbrush to play with your design and change it. You can save the design on your diskette or cassette.  Then you can look at it later or make more changes.

Lode Runner Manual

With PowerPad and LogicMaster, the entire family can enjoy many hours of fun and excitement.  Each game you play sharpens your powers of observation, as well as improves your problem solving abilities. Your goal is to solve LogicMaster's "secret code" by placing properly-colored shapes in their correct positions.  You can play by yourself or with a friend. You can design each game so that it is as complex or as simple as you like.

Logotron Planner 1295 is a spreadsheet program from the Logotron Business series of low cost, high quality software.

Machine Lightning Manual - The COMMODORE 64 is widely recognised as having the most powerful sound and graphics hardware available on any home computer, and as a result of this there is a rich selection of video games available for it, the mosst successful of which are written in machine code.  The author of such a game has a major problem too overcome - he has to have some way of designing the graphics to be used in the game, and he has to have a set of debugged machine-code routines to place the graphics on the screen.  Machine Lightning is designed to overcome these problems.

Instructions can be dull, tedious and uninformative at times, with obscure technical language obfuscating the exposition (what?). In this book we will use explanations and examples that are easy to understand, and straight to the point. We will try to avoid the complications of programming terms, but if it becomes necessary to discuss something of a technical nature, we will attemptto simplify and explain everything each step of the way.

Welcome to one of the unique range of Robtek products that you have just bought. You are in possession of a highly sophisticated product that will help you to get a better performance and a longer life from your disk drive. To be able to enjoy the full benefits from this product it is important that you read the instructions carefully. Robteks Magic Disk Kit is simple to use and easy to correct. It is an economical method that not
only cleans and checks your drive but solves most of your problems.

Expeditions presents three historic journeys for children who love adventure!  Youngsters can travel back in time and relive the hardships and successes of three different groups of Americans. Each expedition directs attention to the history of the development of the North American continent.

This is a manual for the MegaPatch 3 upgrade to the GEOS operating system.

This is the manual for MegaPatch3 and TopDesk 4.1 - These are upgrades to GEOS version 2.0.

Merlin 128 is an extremely powerful, comprehensive Macro Assembler system for the Commodore 128 computer. It consists of four main modules and numerous auxiliary and utility programs which comprise one of the most complete assembler systems available for anypersonal computer.

I found this nicely formatted and concise guide to Merlin 128 while looking through other goodies at the Bombjack site.  I highly recommend you go visit, that's the place to find books, guides, manuals and all sorts of other great retro related stuff.

Merlin 64 by Glen Bredon is a Macro Assembler for the Commodore 64.

This is the manual for MetaBASIC 64, MetaBASIC 128 and MetaBASIC Plus.  You can also find this information in the February 1987 issue of Compute!'s Gazette magazine.