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.

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.

MetaBASIC (from the April 1985 Compute Gazette) is a utility will change the way you program. It adds 32 new debugging and testing commands to Commodore 64 BASIC, working by itself or in conjunction with a machine language monitor/assembler.

Turn your television and computer into a music machine! Using PowerPad and MicroMaestro you can create new songs or play your favorites.  You don't need a grand piano or symphony orchestra - just your fingers, your imagination, your PowerPad and MicroMaestro .

Welcome to the MicroSpec Ltd. Data Base Manager. This comprehensive package allows you to do most major data management procedures easily without becoming a programming genius or Systems analyst.

Mini Jini comes in a game cartridge - but it's NOT a game. Mini Jini makes your computer work at home, school, club or office! Put address lists, books and more in order. Track of meetings and valuables. Print labels and reports. Keep almost any records better and more quickly than you can by hand.

Here's a link to the program.

MR TESTER is a multifunction diagnostic program that will check your system for hardware problems that may cause serious data loss or other types of hardware malfunctions. The diagnostics on this disk will test your disk drive, printer, keyboard, screen, SID music chip and many more hardware related functions. MR TESTER is easy and fun to use because it was written for maximum user friendliness. Please read this instruction booklet before embarking on ‘checking out’ your C-64.

Program can be found HERE!

Multipaint 2020 Manual - This is the current version as of 3/29/2021 but to get the latest versions, please visit http://multipaint.kameli.net to get the link to the most recent version.  At the moment it's hosted on Google cloud drive, but that could possibly change in the future.

This reference manual assumes you already have the knowledge to program in COBOL and have read the Commodore 64 CP/M Operating System User's Guide.

News Maker 128 will allow anyone to create professional looking newsletters, reports, signs and posters with a minimum of effort and expense.  News Maker 128 supports the Commodore 128 in its native 80 column mode.

Omni Writer (Hesware) Quick Reference Card

OpenCBM v0.4.99 Users Guide

Outrageous Pages Loading Instructions

Outrageous Pages Manual

Oxford Pascal is an implementation of standard Pascal designed specifically for the Commodore 64.  It offers all the features of this powerful language with some useful enhancements for the personal computer user.

A new computer application has been making a splash recently: Desktop Publishing.  This means the complete creation of all kinds of printed matter (letters, advertising, brochures, invitations, etc.) on the computer, including the layout, variation of the fonts used, and the integration of graphics.  Although some conventional word-processing programs already offered such possibilities, there were many restrictions, and the final result was usually only seen when it was printed out.  In desktop publishing, on the other hand, you do the complete design on the screen and see the result there just as it will be printed out later.  WYSIWYG means in computers: “What you see is what you get”.

Translation from German by Robert Bernardo

Welcome to Paperback Writer 128 and 64 - probably the best writing tool available for inexpensive home computer systems.  Extraordinarily easy to learn and use, Paperback Writer also offers many sophisticated controls over your documents, on both the video screen and printed paper.

• Link to the program

PaperClip is designed for ease and simplicity in use, yet is powerful enough to tackle almost any wordprocessing job.  Many advanced features not found with micro-computer wordprocessors are incorporated in PaperClip.  The result is a document which reads better, being created in less time.

• Link to the program

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.

Paui Norman's Computerized Publishing Co. creates regular or custom print characters and text combined with graphics or fonts for newsletters, banners, letterheads, cards, labels, or as part of a screen display.

Personal Publisher User Manual [GEOS] - 4th Printing [Expert Software] - Personal Publisher gives you the capabilities to enter the world of desktop publishing now.  You can create newsletters, flyers, ads, awards, presentations, cards, announcements and more.

With Personal Publisher you can combine text, graphics and page layout so your documents will look like they were created by a professional graphic designer.

Here's a link to the program

Credits: Allan Pinkerton for recovery and archiving

Petspeed was first released in the early days of Commodore computing and has been implemented on most of the major Commodore machines. Petspeed offers a very high level of compatibility with BASIC 7.0. It has always been and continues to be the BASIC compiler which produces the fastest running compiled programs.

Welcome to Pocket Filer 2: all the power of Pocket Filer-a sophisticated, inexpensive and easy to-use database program for the Commodore 64 and 128-plus enhancements that make database management easier and better than ever!

As you probably know, POWER PLAN is a "spreadsheet". All types of calculations may be carried out with the aid of POWER PLAN. As an example of a calculation, let's calculate the selling price for an item based on the specified cost price. This is a calculation which a retailer has to make every day.

The cost price of an article is a combination of various factors. The most significant ones are the actual cost price, the additional costs (rent, etc.) and the retailer's profit margin. To calculate the selling price, the retailer needs various implements. For example, a sheet of paper, a pencil and in most cases, a pocket calculator. In this case you can already see that it is very sensible to use a computer for these calculations, as it offers advantages in a number of ways.

With suitable software, the computer is able to replace the above-mentioned implements. And you have this software right in your hands.

POWER PLAN not only replaces these implements, but offers you many other advantages.

Print Master Users Guide

PrintPower Manual

PrintPower Quick Reference Card

Printshop Companion Reference Card

Printshop Companion Reference Manual

QUIKPRO + is a complete File Maintenance / Data 'Entry Program Generator. A program generator actually writes the program for you. Ahnost every program which uses files to store data requires file maintenance. File maintenance generally refers to the addition to, updating of, or deletion from a file. Since file maintenance is a part of almost every program application, a great deal of time is used in the production of programs to do file maintenance. QUIKPRO + is designed to eliminate the tedious task of hand writing this type of program.

Computer Diagnostics is a collection of programs that will test your computer equipment. The program is easy to use by simply following the prompts on screen as you go.

Script-64:  A word processing program for the Commodore 64

I haven't been able to find the actual Commodore 64 manual for Sky Travel, but I did find an older Macintosh version of the manual and this addendum.  

Update - Thanks to Bruce Thomas, we now have the manual, cheat sheet and easter eggs!

Welcome to Sky Travel! The magic of microelectronics has made it possible to have an accurate model of the universe in your own home at a modest cost. The awesome computations and enormous amounts of data are handled quickly and efficiently by your Commodore 64 computer. All you have to do is select your exploration commands and Sky Travel will return the information in pictorial form, directly on your screen - and in bright colors at that!

Thanks to Bruce Thomas, we now have the Commodore 64 manual plus some extras.  Inside the archive is Leroy's Cheatsheet for Sky Travel and a document about Sky Travel Easter Eggs!

Couldn't locate the Commodore 64 version of the Sky Travel manual, but found this Macintosh version that was released around the same time, so maybe it will be useful in conjunction with the Sky Travel 64 Addendum.

Update - Thanks to Bruce Thomas, we now have the manual, cheat sheet and easter eggs!

S.A.M. -- the Software Automatic Mouth -- a versatile, high-quality speech synthesizer created entirely in software. You have added quality speech to your personal computer for a lower cost than ever before possible and, in the bargain, have gained features that other speech synthesizers cannot offer.

S.A.M. is designed to be easy to use. With a couple of simple program statements, you can add speech to your BASIC or assembly-language programs. When you have mastered the easy-to-learn phonetic alphabet, the inflection system, and the use of pitch and speed controls, you will be amazed at what you can make S.A.M. do. And, until then it will already match the performance of other speech synthesizers.

Note - this is a really bad scan of the manual, but it's the only Commodore 64 version I could find.

Here is a nice clean scan of the SAM - the Software Automatic Mouth.  Although it's for the Apple, most of the information is relevant to the Commodore 64 version also.

SPEEDY ASSEMBLER is a comprehensive machine code development package, which is suitable for both the beginner in machine coding and the experienced programmer, who wants to write large, complicated machine-code programs.

The Spence System BBS. A program which has come back to haunt us again and again. A program which is never really complete. A program which continually groNns, evolves, improves and takes us every last clock cycle of our spare time. A program which had cast our names into modemland history and has made us less money than running a Kool-aid stand in January.

The Spritemaster 64 animation program is designed as a sprite generator and editor for use by programmers or as a fun and creative playmate for children or adults.

Sprites are movable object blocks which, through the power of the new Commodore 64 computer, can be made to imitate almost any moving object.

Spritemaster helps you build your sprite, then copy and modify it to produce a sequence of pictures which represent the object in motion. The Animate command will then put each picture on the screen in rapid succession to create the animation. This is similar to what takes place in a movie projector where still photographs, each a slightly different picture, are rapidly projected one after another onto the screen to produce a “ motion picture.”

Spritemaster lets you modify your sprite picture sequence to produce colors, shapes and sizes which give the best effect. In addition, you may change the speed of animation (the rate at which the still frames are displayed) or the speed of travel (the vertical or horizontal movement across the screen).

Once you have created your animated figure, you can save the informaton to tape or disk for retrieval at a later time. You may want to refine several figures for use in a game program. Although Spritemaster is not a game program, it is a program to create game objects. For example, it cannot display a pitcher throwing a baseball to a catcher. It can, however, be used to create the pitcher as a separate sprite, including the throwing motion, then the baseball as another sprite, and then the catcher as the final sprite. Each object is created separately and then transfered to other programs for interaction and movement as desired. The programmer’s reference section provides guidance on how to manipulate sprites in your own programs.

Excellent Step-by-Step 64 BlazeTerm Guide by Andrew Wiskow of CottonWood / Borderline fame!

Welcome to the fabulous world of Desktop Publishing. With the STOP PRESS processor you can create your own newspapers, magazines, posters, leaflets, handouts, letters, infact whatever type of document you need. Impress your friends, school chums or work colleagues with really professional looking documents.

Super Pascal 128 Compiler and Software Development System for the Commodore 128.