Posted By
Sdw
on 2008-09-16
04:00:24
|  Programmers reference guide or similar for Plus/4?
I'm taking my first steps in Plus/4 programming, and the only thing I have to go by is this C16/Plus4 memory map:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/maps/C16.MemoryMap
While that is good, I'd like something more in-depth that explains the TED registers more in detail and how the different graphics modes works.
Is there no Prorgrammers Reference Guid for the Plus/4?
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Posted By
Sdw
on 2008-09-16
07:13:26
| Re: Programmers reference guide or similar for Plus/4?
Thank you very much, good information!
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2008-09-16
10:31:48
| Re: Programmers reference guide or similar for Plus/4?
There did exist some PRGs for the Plus/4 and C16:
English: "The Programmer's Reference Guide to the Commodore Plus/4" by Merten/Meyer.
German: "Das Große PLUS/4 Buch" by Shafer. (I'm sorry, I'm on English charset, would a Euro moderator please fix the chars? TY!)
Photos and Google links appear on the Plus/4 World Publications page: http://plus4world.com/publications
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Posted By
MikeZ
on 2008-10-13
18:04:29
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The book by Merten/Meyers is the best I've seen. I use it every day. Hard to find. I lost the one I bought in 1987. I got lucky and one came along with a plus/4 from ebay.
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Posted By
Chris
on 2008-10-14
09:37:21
| Re: Programmers reference guide or similar for Plus/4?
I've got both "The Programmer's Reference Guide to the Commodore Plus/4" & the "Anco C16/Plus 4 Reference" books. Some time ago I scanned them into PDF format and forgot about them. If you drop me your email address I'll send you them over.
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-10-15
00:06:06
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I have the PRG to the Commodore Plus/4 sitting in the kitchen right now. 
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
CommVEx v5 info - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX
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Posted By
SVS
on 2008-10-15
02:35:53
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Chris, could you kindly send the Anco guide to me too?
Tnx.
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Posted By
Chris
on 2008-10-15
06:52:22
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Sent
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2008-10-15
23:08:45
| Re: Programmers reference guide or similar for Plus/4?
Doesn't it suck that we have to hunt down bits and pieces of the publications history of the Plus/4 like this? Searching our forum yields this post, where C16 Chris claims that he scanned the whole thing, but the link is unfortunately down. I mean probably some of us have books that no-one else has, but nobody has all the books... If only there were some central place where we could keep this stuff... You know, kind of like a database of publications, where we could keep track of all the books, magazines and everything else! It could have thumbnails, scans, links to scans, author info, ISBN numbers, the whole 9 yards! Wow, that would be amazing! If only someone would take the effort to do that...
Well, one can dream 
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Posted By
MikeZ
on 2008-10-16
11:34:42
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I have tried to ask the author, Cyndie Merten, for permission to post a PDF copy at this website. So far there's no response. Perhaps someone else can be more persuasive.
cyndie@plumware.com
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Posted By
MMS
on 2008-10-16
15:30:44
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Yeah, I yesterday was looking Google Library, a huge collection of PDF scanned books.
Most of these books are now obsolete (you canot sell them is shops, and devinitely most of them already scrapped, only secondhad versions available), I do not really see, that anyone would be hurt, if the scanned copy would put on the net, keeping their work available for people may still need it?
If I would be you, I would upload it to Google or here, and if any of the authors have a problem with that, can request a removal, but then I would kindly ask him/her to print it beforehand, and use it next to their toilet...
Not because I do not respect their work, just I do not like selfish people. (as anyhow any profit from those books is a kind of irrealistic dream).
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Posted By
MMS
on 2008-10-17
16:28:46
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Unfortunely I have no books to scan at all... All is left over at Szeged, when I shut the door behind me...
But still the local libraries have a lot of old stuff, could be scanned. I will try to do some good scanning over Christmas-time.
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