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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:

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.