This is a text (.txt) file of the C128 System Guide.  

The purpose of this book is to show you how to work with CP/M as comfortably and quickly as possible. All of the standard CP/M commands, as well those CP/M commands peculiar to the Commodore 128, are thoroughly explained.

This Commodore 128 System Guide is designed to help you make full use of the advanced capabilities of the Commodore 128 computer.

This Commodore 128 System Guide is designed to help you make full use of the advanced capabilities of the Commodore 128 computer.

** Someone hand typed this whole guide out many many years ago, probably before OCR or PDF was a thing, crazy huh!?

COMPUTE!’s Commodore 64/128 Collection is a 1985 anthology of programs and articles gathered from COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!’s Gazette for Commodore 64 users and Commodore 128 owners running in 64 mode, with an additional introductory section covering the new capabilities of the 128, including BASIC 7.0, CP/M Plus, peripheral ports, expanded memory, 80-column display, and the 1571 disk drive. The book combines practical programming instruction with type-in entertainment and productivity software, featuring articles on debugging BASIC, handling input, sorting, and writing text adventures; games and educational programs such as Trap ’Em, Mindbusters, Quiz Master, Heat Seeker, and Campaign Manager; sound and graphics tools including Sprite Magic, Ultrafont, and advanced sound effects; and useful utilities such as NoZap, UnNEW, Freeze, and TurboDisk. Appendices provide typing guidance plus the Automatic Proofreader and MLX entry tools to help readers accurately enter BASIC and machine-language listings.

COMPUTE!’s Music System for the Commodore 128 & 64: The Enhanced Sidplayer by Craig Chamberlain is a 1986 guide and software package for creating, editing, and playing sophisticated music on the Commodore 128 and Commodore 64 using the SID sound chip. Built around the included Enhanced Sidplayer disk, the book explains how to use the Player and Editor programs, teaches basic and advanced music theory, and shows how to enter notes, edit songs, control waveforms, envelopes, filters, modulation, repetition, frequency effects, polyphony, and phrasing. It also covers Singalong songs with synchronized words, songs with pictures, merging Sidplayer music into BASIC programs, utility programs for managing songs, and practical tips for getting better sound from the SID chip, making it both a music-composition course and a detailed reference for Commodore users who want to turn the 64 or 128 into a capable home music system.

The CP/M 3 documentation set includes three manuals:

• CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System User’s Guide
• CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer’s Guide
• Programmer’s Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems

The CP/M Plus (CPIM Version 3) Operating System User’s Guide introduces you to the CP/M 3 operating system and tells you how to use it. The User’s Guide assumes that the version of CP/M 3 on your distribution disk is ready to run on your computer. To use this manual, you must be familiar with the parts of your computer, know how to set it up and turn it on, and how to handle, insert, and store disks. However, you do not need a great deal of experience with computers.

The CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer’s Guide presents information for application programmers who are creating or adapting programs to run under CP/M 3. The Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems includes information on the CP/M assemblers and debuggers that experienced programmers use to create new CP/M 3 programs.|

Just learned about this book tonight from Cursor Vol.6 Issue 10.  If you've ever wanted to do something productive with your 8-bit Commodore 64 / 128, then putting the excellent database program called SuperBase to work would be a good start.  SuperBase: The Book covers just about anything / everything one could want to know about this database.