Micro 6502 - Issue 60 - May 1983

• The ATARI 1200XL - A comparison of the Atari 1200XL, 800 and 400 computers
• Microprocessors for Your Apple II - A comparison of add-on boards for the Apple II
• COMMODORE New Wave - A discussion of Commodore's new product line
• Is 16 Bits the Solution? - Can 8-bit technology survive in the small computer market?
• Get More Data on Your CBM Disk - Write up to four times more numerical data on disk using binary format
• Parameter Passing in Assembly Language, Part I - Pass data to and from assembly language subroutines
• Real-time Clock for the Color Computer - Add a real-time clock and date function to your programs
• &GET on the Apple - A machine-language program to allow customized input routines
• Modifying and Using MAE on the PET - Modifications allow output to an ASCII printer and listing output to a disk file
• 68000 Instructions - Miscellaneous instructions implemented on the 68000
• It's All Relative, Part 5: Printing Commodore File Data - How to format and print data from Commodore relative disk files
• Breakup - A simple animation game that demonstrates PEEKs and POKEs
• Addressfile - A file-management system for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers
• Apple Graphics for Okidata Microline 80: Revisited - Print Apple II hi-res graphics screens on an Okidata Microline 80 printer
• A Universal Printer Pager for Apple - Automatically produce top and bottom margins on each page of printer output
• Second PET as Soft Printer - Address a second PET as IEEE Device 4
• MULTIC - A Multi-Column Print for AIM - Print AIM listings the full width of your printer
• Superboard II / Quick Printer II - An inexpensive way to interface the OSI Superboard II to a RS Quick Printer II
• PET VET - Load-and-Run programming
• From Here to Atari - Drawing geometric shapes
• CoCo Bits - A look at the TDP 100, modems, and service manuals
• Interface Clinic - Experiments in interfacing

ApSoft-64 is a powerful extension to the resident Commodore 64 BASIC. It incorporates a 1541 program loader which speeds up loading of programs by a factor of 5. It also adds 45
easy-to-use-and-understand BASIC commands. These commands are in the same format as Applesoft BASIC for the Apple ] [ family of computers. ApSoft-64 therefore gives the Commodore 64 owner a greatly expanded base of available software in addition toincreasing his or her programming power.

Link to the Manual

Micro 6502 - Issue 59 - April 1983

• Communications:  The Growing Network
• A Not-So-Dumb Terminal Program for the SuperPET - Turn the SuperPet into a smart terminal for a mainframe
• Dialing the Networks - A MC6809 communicates with the major networks
• A Home-Built Communications Interface - Circuitry and techniques for construction
• PET-to-PET Communications - Transfer an array over the User Port
• Multi-Microprocessor Tidbits - Run a 6502 and 6809 on the same computer - simultaneously
• MASTER for VIC and Commodore 64 - A serious look at a simple guessing game
• Conservation of Momentum for Atari and Commodore - An Introductory physics demonstration
• Is a Number a Number? - Convert Numbers from one base to another
• A Begginer's Computer Glossary, Part 2

Line Editor for the Commodore 64 is a simple but fully featured sequential file editor written in BASIC.  The program has some simple listing protection, but I'm sure anyone sufficiently determined will figure out a way around that.

Zapload 64 for the Commodore 64 is one of those programs that falls into two categories; fastloader and disk menu, I opted for the disk menu category because it's just a little to big in size to make a go to fastloader.  Size aside, it could also be a handy fastloader because once in memory, you can change disks and re-load directories on the fly.  It also seems to support multiple drives, but I didn't test that functionality.

VFcopy by Marty Franz and Joe Peter (1987) is an excellent file copying program for the Commodore 64 / 128.  Besides being multi drive / device capable, it also has a built in Warp-DOS mode that is really nice for speeding things up.

Display "Load" Address by Brian Hinz is a small little utility that will read a file from disk and display in both decimal and hex where it loads into memory.

Micro 6502 - Issue 58 - March 1983

• Hi-Res Plotting with the VIC - Combine VIC-1515/1525 printer with the VIC-20 for high-resolution graphics
• Print Control for Apple Printers - A shorth subroutine for automatic pagination and user-selectable margins
• Centronics Printer Driver for Your Microcomputer - an MX-Driver assemble language program
• Disk ID for Printed OSI Directories - Put unused disk space to good use
• Apple PRINT-USING Routine - a machine language routine for formatted output
• A Full Byte for Your Apple Printer - Greater control using the eighth bit
• MICRO Calc for Commodore and Apple - A miniature electronic spreadsheet
• Digi-Draft for Atari 400/800 - A sophisticated drawing program
• The Computer Revolution Reaches the Community
• BANNER: A Display Program for the Color Computer
• 68000 BCD and Privileged Instructions
• A Versatile Hi-Res Graphics Routine for the Apple
• Apple Disk Track Copy for Non-Matching Numbers
• It's All Relative, Part 4 Using Commodore's Relative Records - Read and write relative files

Sequential Disk File Printer by Marshall F. Schultz (Modified by M.W. Adams) - Sometimes it's a simple little utility like this that really comes in handy when you want a nice printout.  With Sequential Disk File Printer, you get a nice paginated printout with word wrap... what more could you ask?

Micro 6502 - Issue 57 - February 1983

• SuperPET APL - An unusual, but powerful, fast, and memory-efficient language
• EDIT: An Atari FORTH Screen-Oriented Editor - A big improvement over the APX line editors
• Apple Pascal Hi-Res Screen Dump - Dump the high-resolution graphics screen to your printer
• An Introduction to FORTH - All about Reverse Polish Notation, colon definitions, and other FORTH features
• FORTH for the 6809 - A look at CCFORTH, figFORTH, and several FLEX-based systems
• The World According to LISP - A power language suited to robotics and artificial intelligence
• Improved IEEE-488 Control for the PET/CBM - More precise control of the bus, without using logical files
• VIC RS-232 Printer - Interface the Radio Shack Quick Printer and other RS-232 devices
• PROM BASIC for the C1P - Increase the C1P's performance without a disk drive
• Indirect Files Under OS-65D - Use the indirect file merge programs, perform warm starts, transfer programs
• It's All Relative, Using Commodore's Relative Records - Part 3 - Use a key file as an index into a relative file
• A Binary Search Routine - Two demonstration programs illustrate this technique
• BASIC Renumber for OSI - Renumber programs in memory and save to tape
• 68000 Program Control: Branch and Jump Instructions

GEOS Inkwell (FlexiDraw) lightpen input driver by David Durran (dated August 26th, 1986)

Micro 6502 - Issue 56 - January 1983

• Discrete Even Simulation in Pascal - Simulate real-world simulations
• Doing Time on the 6809 - Add time in BASIC
• Model Rocket Simulation in BASIC - Determine the altitude performance of single-stage model rockets
• Sun and Moon on the Apple - Hi-res graphics simulation: the orbits of the sun and moon
• Microcomputers in a College Teaching Laboratory, Part 3
• Measurement of a 35mm Focal Plane Shutter - Use inexpensive hardware to measure the accuracy of your camera
• It's All Relative - Using CBM's Relative Records, Part 2 - Learn how to set up relative files and records
• VIC Hi-Res Graphics Explained - Produce 160 by 176 dot graphics
• 68000 Shift, Roate, and Bit Manipulation Instructions - More detailed coverage of the 68000
• Extending Newton-Raphson's Method to Evaluate Complex Roots
• Signed Binary Multiplication is Unsigned - Put this mathmatical curiosity to work
• Apple Math Editor - Easy construction, editing, and printing of mathematical formulas
• Using Long Integers for BCD Numbers in Pascal - Bullet-proof string conversion

Micro 6502 - Issue 55 - December 1982

Commodore Feature

• It's All Relative - CBM Disk Techniques, Part 1 - Get the most from CBM's powerful disk operating systyem
• Squeeze for PET Programs - Squeeze out imbedded blank, line seperators, and comments
• BASIC Line Delete for PET/CBM and VIC - A machine language program to delete blocks of BASIC lines
• SOUP: A CBM Machine-Language Compare Program - A compare program for machine-language program files
• Microcomputers in a College Teaching Laboratory, Part 2

BASIC AIDS

• Apple ILISZT for Integer BASIC Programs - Print your program in a clear, structured format and detect embedded binary code
• BASIC Macro Function for Cursor Control on the OSI - Insert statements with just two keys
• Atari Character Graphics from BASIC, Part 3 - Add to Atari's vertical blank interrupt routines
• Applesoft GOTO/GOSUB Checking Routine - Verify all GOTO and GOSUB references in your program

HARDWARE

• Adding Voice to a Computer - A low-cost procedure for sampling and reproducing voice
• Enhanced Video for OSI C1P - Add five chips - and several features
• Home Control Interface for C1P - Add you own ultasonic control
• Atari Meets the BSR X-10 - Use Atari's controller ports
• 68000 Logic Instructions - Our discussion of the 68000 instruction set continues
• Programmable Character Generator for OSI - Design your own character set
• Utilizing the 6502's Undefined Operation Codes - Hardware to use these op codes for new psuedo-instructions

Change Printer v1.0 by Arthur J. Dahm III (Dated January 5th,1987) is a GEOS desk accessory that lets you change your active printer from within another application like geoWrite.

Micro 6502 - Issue 54 - November 1982

Game Features

• Castle Adventur for PET and Apple
• SYM 23 Matches
• Solve the Pagoda Puzzle Using Recursive Assembly
• VIC/PET GOMOKU
• Number Shuffle on the Atari
• Sensible Use of Apple Game Paddles
• Space Invasion for OSI C1P/Superboard
• Apple Shootdown

Hardware

• Atari Joysticks on the OSI - A simple modification including software and programming information
• An MC68000 Overview, Part 2 - Simple examples illustrate 68000 programming techniques
• A Monitor for the TRS-80 Color Computer - Instructions to get composite video from the video section of the CC
• FLEX and the TRS-80 Color Computer - A description of FLEX09
• 68000 Binary Arithmetic Operations
• How to Make a Graphic-80 PET from a 4016 - Just add inexpensive ICs and move jumpers

Graphics

• Apple Hi-Res Graphics and Memory Use - Avoid overwriting the graphics display area
• Atari Character Graphics from BASIC, Part 2 - Learn about fine scrolling
• Getting Around the Apple Hi-Res Graphics Page - Utilize the graphics area without sacrificing memory
• Extra Colors for the Atari - Two techniques to expand your computer's palette
• Introduction to 3-D Rotation on the Apple - Learn the techniques for yaw, pitch, and roll

Stationary Store 2 is a large collection of printing utilities for the Commodore 64.  Supported printers are the Commodore 1525 (and compatibles) and the Star SL-10C/G (and compatibles).  

KoalaVert v1.0 by Spike Dethman (Dated August 14th, 1991) is a graphics conversion utility for GEOS and the Commodore 64 / 128.  With this utility, you can convert a graphics file that's in Koala Painter format to a GEOS Photo Scrap format that is useable in any program that supports Photo Scraps such as geoWrite, geoPublish, geoPaint and many more.

geoCrypt v1.0 by Spike Dethman (Dated May 6th, 1993) is an encryption utility for GEOS and the Commodore 64/128.  With this utility, you can encrypt an application data file with up to a 16 character secret key.  Full docs are in the archive.

Micro 6502 - Issue 53 - October 1982

• Introduction to Turtle Graphics in Apple Pascal - Dump Pascal Turtle Graphics to a printer
• Three Faces of Apple LOGO - Different approaches to an educational programming language
• Mircocomputers in a College Teaching Laboratory - Part 1 - An overview of microcomputer use in an undergraduate lbaoratory program
• A Personal Computer for Untrained Users - Strategies for creating crash-proof BASIC programs
• Machine-Language Screen Utilities for the CBM-8032 - Screen formatting and easy cursor positioning
• Auto Graph for the Apple - Using an EXEC file to self-modify a BASIC program
• Screen Editor for the OSI 65D Assembler - Add this convenient editing capability to your assembler
• Formatted Output with Atari BASIC - Print-using for the Atari
• Building a Parallel Printer Interface - A general discussion with details on a C1P to C1P interface
• The IBM Selectric as as OSI System Printer - A cheap letter quality printer
• A Homespun 32K Color Computer - Expand your 16k TRS-80C to 32K bytes of RAM memory
• Apple Pascal P-Code Interpreter and the 6809 - A comparision of P-Code efficiency between 6502 and 6809 computers
• Atari Character Graphics from BASIC, Part 1 - A technique to use character-mode display graphics
• Apple Slices - Run the Pascal assembler under DOS 3.3
• PET Vet - A better BASIC - Waterloo microBASIC on the SuperPET

Termites! v1.1 by Spiek Dethman (Dated February 13th, 1989) is a neat novelty program for GEOS and the Commodore 64.  When run, this program slowly eats away the screen as if it had termites.

Meltdown! v1.1 by Spike Dethman (Dated February 13th, 1989) is a GEOS novelty.  When run, this desk accessory slowly melts the screen... very neat.

Villain Modded C*Base by Holy Moses - This is a heavily modded C*Base 3.3 BBS that is strictly for the Ultimate 64 and turbo mode.  The two disks in the archive make up a complete functioning BBS and are ready to go.

Port 2 Drivers v1.1 by Spike Dethman, Chris Hawley & David Durran (dated August 1991) - This is a set of three drivers for GEOS that work on joystick port 2.  The first is the standard Joystick / Commodore 1350 Mouse driver, the second is a proportional 1351 Mouse driver, and the third is an accelerated proportional 1351 Mouse driver.  Documentation is included in the archive.

New Koala Drivers v1.2 by Spike Dethman (December 15th, 1990) - This set of drivers for the Koala Pad are a huge improvement over the drivers by Berkley Softworks.  Instead of using absolute addressing, these drivers use relative addressing so that instead of the mouse pointer just appearing where you click on the Koala, the Koala acts more like a modern day trackpad.  There are four drivers total, 2 for joystick port one, and 2 for joystick port 2.  The difference between the drivers is the orientation in which you use the Koala. 

Full docs are in the archive which cover detailed use.

Micro 6502 - Issue 52 - September 1982

• The 68000 and the Personal Computer - The 68000 as an add-on to 6502-based systems
• An MC68000 Overview - A description of the 68000's registers, instruction set, and addressing modes
• 68000 Instruction Set - Part 1 in a series on the 68000, including a detailed table of Data Movements
• Superimposing TV Pictures on PET Video - Modify the PET to superimpose a television camera picture on the PET video display
• A/D Conversion Using a 555 Timer IC - This simple 555 timer yields a high dynamic range inexpensively
• Delayed Reset and Autoboot for the OSI - Add both a time delay to the BREAK key, and an automatic disk system bootup
• 6809 Macros for Structured Programming - Use assembler macros for structured assembly language programming
• Market Projection Program for the Color Computer - A sophisticated business program to project industry and company sales
• Double-Entry Formatting for your Checkbook on the C1P - A simple checkbook balancing program
• Auto SAVE for the PET - A routine for automatic cassette backup
• COMPRESS - An Applesoft Optimizet - Reduce Applesoft program memory requirements by up to 30%
• Apple Slices - "Hashing" ... A quick random-access technique
• PET Vet - The MAE assembler and new Commodore-oriented publications

RAMboot v1.1 by Spike Dethman with additional credit to Joseph Thomas for the Drive RESCUE concept (Dated March 18th, 1993) - RAMboot is a GEOS 64 / 128 (40 & 80 column mode) Auto Exec that replaces the REU quick reboot with one that restores your disk drives to their proper locations, re-executes any Auto Exec files on the current disk and re-enters GEOS.  Requies a 1750, 1764 or clone RAM expansion.  Full documentation is on the disk.

Envelope v1.0 for GEOS and the Commodore 64 / 128 by Spike Dethman (Dated May 13th, 1993) - Neat little desk accessory that lets you print out an envelope.  Can pull data from a text scrap, or you can type the address in yourself. 

Works in GEOS on the C64 and 128 in either 40 or 80 column mode.  Includes full Docs.

Micro 6502 - Issue 51 - August 1982

• Structured Programming in 6502 Assembly Language - Add high-level, structured techniques to your assemble-language programming
• Pattern-Matching with the 6502 on the Apple - Presents both elementary and advanced patern-matchin algorithms
• Random Number Generator in Machine Language for the Apple - A simple subroutine for the Apple
• A New Character Set for the VIC-20 - Design your own VIC characters
• Data Transfer from AIM to PET - Send data and programs from the AIM to the PET through a simple cable
• PET to AIM Download - Use the PET to develop programs for simpler systems
• Expanding File Cabinet for the Apple - Access File Cabinet for use with other programs
• Duty Cycle Monitor for the VIC-20 - Determine the correct volume level for reliable recording of cassette tapes
• Interfacing the Color Computer - Send and receive Morse code
• POWER-Aid for the PET - Add commands to Professional Software's BASIC programming utility, POWER
• SURCHANGE for OSI - SEARCH / CHANGE for OSI BASIC-in-ROM machines
• ON ERROR GOTO for OSI ROM BASIC - A utility to trap errors without stopping program execution
• Straight Forward Garbage Collection for the Apple - An Apple-based linear garbage collection program
• OSI Extended I/O Processor - Ad more than thirty new functions to the OSI C1P
• Delete on the OSI - Omit on or more lines with only a few keystrokes

Micro 6502 - Issue 50 - July 1982

• Rewriting PET ROMs - Eliminate bugs and add improvements by rewritting your operating system
• Timing and Counting with the 6522 - Perform precision timing tasks with the Versatile Interface Adapter
• An Overview of Apple DOS - Learn how to manipulate and modify DOS
• Converting Apple Pictures to a Standart Bit-Mapped Format - Transfer Apple hi-res screens to Visibile Memory on the PET
• PET Communicates with Apple - Use the Apple's cassette port to transport data
• Apple Disk Sector Map Utility - Determine actual sector allocation
• Build an Apple Cart - An inexpensive way to build a home for your Apple
• Low-Resolution Graphics and Apple Pascal - Access Apple's lo-res capabilitiess from Apple Pascal
• Computer-Assisted Translation of Program from 6502 - 6809 - Translating techniques
• Auto Entry for the C1P - Easy keyboard entry for machine language programs
• TAPDUP - AIM Tape Copy Utilitiy - Backup your cassettes by controlling two recorders at the same time
• Apple Slices - A method to pass parameters between BASIC and machine language
• PET Vet - Review of POWER, a flexibile utility package

Micro 6502 - Issue 49 - June 1982

• Disk to Tape Backup Utility - Save money by using cassette tapes for backup
• AIM User Function Dispatch - Overcome AIM's limitation of three user-definable keys
• Add a VIA and Speech Synthesizer to the Color Computer - Add 8-bit bidirectional I/O ports to your Color Computer
• A Sequential File Handler for a Disk-Based OSI - This file handler written in BASIC and easily implemented
• Face Synthesizer for PET - Create an animated face on the PET's screen
• A Low-Cost Digitizer for the Apple - Use a sheet of plastic to built this digitizer
• AIM Logic Trainer - Test logic circuits and control I/O with this program
• A Versatile Disk Label Printer - Print different kinds of labels for one and two sided disks
• Program for Inverting a Matrix - Handy routine for math and statistical programs
• BASIC, FORTH, and RPL - Two established languages are compared to a newcomer, RPL
• Tiny PILOT for the PET - A machine language PILOT with screen editing
• Microcomputer Interfacing: FORTH vs. BASIC - Programs to control a digitizer interface are compared
• PRINT AT for OSI Systems - Routine for C1P, C4P, and C8P, plus hex object loader
• Symbol Table Lister for the OSI - List symbol table generated by the C1P assembler

Micro 6502 - Issue 48 - May 1982

• Memory Map Relocator - Use this handy program to prevent your programs from being overwritten
• General BASIC to Machine Language Interface - Allow better communication between BASIC and machine language
• LISZT with Strings - Turn Applesoft listings into easy-to-understand structured formats
• Apple Graphics for Okidata Microline 80 - Dump Apple hi-res screen graphics to Okidata printer
• Commodore and MICRO
• PET Memory Protector - Isolate 1K or more of memory from BASIC and resets
• Growing Knowledge Trees - Artificial intelligence represented in tree diagrams
• PET Menu and Tape Timer - Advanced cassette control, extensive use of WAIT command
• PET Vet - PET SCREEN editing
• From Here to Atari - "Front Jacks" on the Atari 400 and 800
• The Single Life - HDE Disk BASIC

Micro 6502 - Issue 47 - April 1982

• AIM User Device Arbiter - Expand the AIM's I/O ports
• General Purpose Tape I/O for OSI - Flexible cassette LOAD and SAVEfunctions are provided
• A Real Tape Operating System - Get the most out of Commodore's reliable system
• COPCOP Single Drive Copier - Copy OSI diskettes quickly and easily
• Vortax Interface for SYM - Easily interface this speech synthesizer to your system's VIA
• 6508 - A New 6502 Configuration - Package includes processor, I/O, RAM and other features
• Programmable Reverse Video for the C1P - Add this handy feature to your C1P with programming and circuitry
• Structured Programming in BASIC09 - Combine the benefits of structured programming and user interaction
• Extension to the C-Bug Monitor - Debugging functions are added to this ML monitor for the Color Computer
• Multiprecision Addition - A Comparison of 6809 and 6502 Programming
• FLEX: An Operating System for the 6809 - FELX's history, features and applications are discussed
• 7SEG: PET Giant Character Set - Alpha-numeric characters on seven-segment display
• Applesoft Variable Dump - This debugging utility provides a dump of current variable array values
• Integer Cross-Reference Utilities - Generate a complete cross-reference table for Apple Integer BASIC programs

Documentation Viewer and Printer by Mark A. Dickenson (1988) - Nice simple, fast sequential file viewer / printer written in machine language for the Commodore 64.

Pulse Assembler, A.K.A The Pulse, A.K.A Assembler64 MK2 by Interceptor (Original by Ian Gray - Extended by Lee Braine) is nothing fancy, but I'm sure someone might find it interesting.  I found a doc file for it, so thought I'd post it.

Cursor - Vol. 06 - Issue 11 - July 1990

• Library News - Info about BASIC 8, SYSRES, Colorez 128 & Laser Genius
• Mail Box - Discussion of why 1990 is a good time to buy software for an 8-bit Commodore
• 8 Bits & Pieces - General chit chat about what's going on in the club
• Requiem for an Old Friend - End of an era for the Commodore 64
• C-64 Machine Language, Part 6 - Features and design of a long program
• The Write Stuff - Customizing the BB Writer ofr Dot Matrix Printers
• My First Days With a Modem - Reflections of a new modem user
• Digi-View 4.0 - Introduction and review
• Oh Agnes! - What happens when your Amy gets sick
• Games on Fish - Review of three games from the Fred Fish collection
• Graphics Bug in Pagestream - Description of an issue with Pagestream 1.8
• A-3000 Release - Edited release notes for the Amiga 3000
• Amiga Public Domain - Shot takes on Fred Fish disks 341 - 350

Note : Again this issue has the wrong volume # on the cover