The Anatomy of the CPC's
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| Title: | The Anatomy of the CPC's |
| Authors: | Bruckmann-Englisch-Gerits-Steigers |
| Publiser: | First Publishing Ltd. |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Pages: | 403 |
| ISBN: | 0-948015-46-2 |
Contents
Introduction. 1 - The hardware. 1.1 - What you need to know about your machine. 1.2 - The processor. 1.3 - The gate array. 1.4 - Video controller MD 6845. 1.5 - The CPC RAM. 1.6 - The video RAM between the Z80 and the 6845. 1.7 - 8255, the parallel interface component. 1.8 - Programmable sound generator AY-3-8912. 1.9 - The disk drive in the CPC 664 and 6128. 1.10 - The interfaces. 2 - The operating system. 2.1 - The operating system and vectors. 2.2 - Operating system RAM. 2.3 - How to use the operating system routines. 2.4 - How to use the operating system interrupts. 2.5 - The operating system ROM. 2.6 - The character generator. 3 - BASIC. 3.1 - The BASIC interpreter. 3.2 - The BASIC stack. 3.3 - BASIC and machine language. 3.4 - The BASIC ROM. 4 - Appendix. 4.1 - The operating system routines. 4.2 - System RAM references. 4.3 - The BASIC tokens. 4.4 - Monitor.