This is some additional manual information for the CardCo Card/Print +G printer interface.

CardCo Card/Print (A) - Instruction Manual corrections and additions

Your Model C2N Tape Cassette will enable you to expand the input and output (110) capabilities of your PET. CBM or VIC Computer.

The software for using the cassette is already built into your computer. Please reference the appropriate Computer User Manual for detailed operating instructions.

These documents are for repair service information only. Part numbers are for reference only. Only parts on current dealer parts list are available. No license is given for any use by possession of these docu ments and may not be reproduced in any form without the written approval of Commodore Electronics Limited.

Within the text of this manual references are made to many printers and printer types. The C/?+G interface was intended to be used only with printers that conform to certain standards. There are four groups of printers that are intended to be used with the C/?+G interface. Within each group there may be many printers. The four groups are the Epson group, the Prowriter group, the Okidata group and the Siekosha group. A listing of the most common printers in each group is on page A1 of the appendix of this manual. When, in this manual, we refer to one of the printers in a group the statement will refer to all  printers in that group.

If your printer isn't listed in one of those groups it may still be in one of them, we just aren't aware of it. If this is the case and you find that your printer works when set up like one of the printers in one of the groups, please let us know so we can pass on the information to other users.

Any printer can be used with the C/?+G (See page A1 of the appendix for OTHER PRINTERS) but the special Commodore functions and Commodore graphics will not be available.

The "CARD/?" (CARD/PRINT) printer interface was designed to all you to add any parallel printer to your VIC-20 or C-64 computer. The design objective was to provide you with a system that would so closely
duplicate the functions of the VIC printers that you would be able to run available software without any changes. To accomplish this task, and still allow you to make use of the special features available in today's
high quality printers, required some special approaches to solving simple problems.

PaperClip Publisher by Batteries Included - If you'd like to create eye-catching layouts, but don't enjoy playing with scissors and glue, PaperClip Publisher has the solution. This powerful page layout program for the Commodore 64 lets you combine text from your favorite word processor and graphics from your favorite drawing program to create almost any layout you can think up.

Thank you Blue Cursor for coming through with this nice find; disk images for PaperClip Publisher, and not just .d64, but .nibs also.  As noted by Blue Cursor, the disk image on archive.org is only side a of the program and the version on CSDb is a crack, so now we have the two disk set that includes extra graphics, sample layouts and templates.  

Here's a Link to the manual.

Bruce Thomas has come through with another great collection! This time we have an 8 disk collection of all the best Ahoy! had to offer.  The following is a partial quote from the email Bruce sent with the disk images:

Ahoy! Magazine released eight Anthology Disks between July 1985 and May 1987. These disks covered four categories (Best of [Year], Best Utilities, Best Games, Best C-128) and included programs that had appeared in the magazine from January 1984 to April 1987.

Copies of the Best of 85 and Best Utilities disks have been available for a couple decades but the other Anthology Disks haven't been to my knowledge.

Most of the programs have been available in one location or another but I did have to type-in a few.I also went through all of the magazines and updated the programs with patches/changes that had appeared in the magazine both before and after the official Errata column arrived in the January 1985 magazine. Many of the problems were from messed up printed program listings but some of the programs on-disk actually had flaws that needed correcting. You may want to update your existing Ahoy! Disk Collection with these versions.

No documentation is included. For that, you will have to read the magazines - the issues for each program can be found in the ad on Page 41 of the May 1987 magazine (jpg included). One notable exception is Syntax Patrol on the Best of 86 disk which is listed as being in the September 86 issue whereas it is actually in the November 86 issue.

If you want all the gory details read the TLDR version of this file included here.

Thanks Bruce for all the efforts you put into preserving, correcting, and completing if these collections.

Today we have a great collection of games to share by Cleveland M. Blakemore for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128.  A big thanks goes to Bruce Thomas for sending these over.  Back when Bruce was managing the Commodore Users of Edmonton (CUE) he maintained a web page concerning this collection, which was published in various Ahoy! magazines over a period of three years.  Inside the archive you will find five floppies full of 35 games.  One of the games that really has my interest is Dark Fortress which is a two player adventure game for the Commodore 128 where both the 40 column and 80 column monitor modes are used at the same time! You'll obviously need two monitors to experience that.  You can find maps and hints for Dark Fortress in the archive 

I'll post some additional information along with the list of games in the detailed description.  I'll also be posting the Commodore 128 games individually at a later date.  If you'd like to find further information, Bruce shared this link to the Lemon64 forum thread that spans several years.

CBMPrgStudio v4.4.0 by Arthur Jordison (August 2024) - This is IMO the best cross platform IDE available for coding Commodore 64 BASIC or assembly on a Windows PC.

New features in v4.4.0:

• Support for Waterloo Structured BASIC.
• Added custom load address for BASIC programs.
• Added configuration options for SEQ files.
• Added character count for SEQ files.
• The task list can be exported to csv file.
• The File Information window now shows if a file is included in the project and part of the build.
• In-line number base conversion for code editor.

The official source for CBMPrgStudio is https://www.ajordison.co.uk/

PETSCII Wizard of War by KO-KO (Kornel Kolma, 2024) - No clue why, but I really like PETSCII based games, and this one is no exception!  This is a conversion of the original 1980 game by Midway.

If you'd like to find out more, check out the itch.io page where you can also find a Commodore Plus4 and PET version.

C-Net v10.0 Docs (1986 Perspective Software / Ken Pletzer) recovered by Bucko! - This has been requested for a long time, and unfortunately it's not a PDF nor a complete archive (few pages missing towards the end).  Bucko downloaded this in 1987 from a BBS, and for whatever reason, it isn't quite complete.  We are still sincerely thankful to Bucko for providing this from his archive.

Oh, guess I forgot to mention that this is a .d81 disk image with several Commodore .SEQ text files, which I'm sure you gathered from the screen shots.

C-Net DS-2 BBS Manual - Apologize for the low quality of this scan, I'm sure it has a lot to do with the original source material, but if you zoom in enough it's totally readable.  If I run across a better version, I'll be sure to post it.

64Fetch by Korbosoft is a neat little utility similar to something like Neofetch for Linux.  It's purpose is simple, display a nice formatted screen outpout of your Commodore 64 internals including Kernal version, CPU type, VIC type, SID type and CBM DOS version.

If you'd like to check out the source code (written in cc65) and know where to look for newer versions, look here.

Actioneer was a newsletter of sorts presented as "News for the ACTIONAUT Community".  Actionaut is a unique type of game which was more about designing an environment than it was about winning.  You can find a review of Actionaut  in the April 1986 issue of Ahoy!. You can also find a review along with the program on LoadStar #21. Screenshots can be found on Lemon64.

The following is an extract from the opening:

Do you have a question? Maybe you have discovered a new ACTIONAUT application or have stumbled across a GREAT piece of freeware that would be of interest to other members of the ACTIONAUT community. We want to hear from you.

Thanks to Bruce Thomas for the information and sharing this newsletter from his personal collection.