A guidebook for programming the commodore VIC20. It has a collection of programming techniques, hints and kinks, tricks, subroutines, and shortcuts.
¥ Explains procedures for adding memory and error trapping.
¥ Proclaims that KERNAL is the officer in charge of the VIC 20.
¥ States that two of the most powerfu I commands are PEEK and POKE.
¥ Discusses the main functions for handling data: ASC, CHR$, LEFT$, LEN, MID$, RIGHT$, STR$, VAL, concatenation, parsing data, finding buried data, bubble sort, and Sheil-Metzner sort.
¥ Explains methods of combining graphics, color, and sound. ¥ Covers ioystick, paddles, and light pen.
¥ Discusses privacy and program protection.