Source Codes

This article contains source codes and programming examples. You may also have a look at

• Programming software
• Technical documentations
• Locomotive BASIC

Assembler

• Z80 - undocumented opcodes
• Where to learn?

Algorithms

• CPC OS floating point routines
• CRC16
• CRC32
• Integer Division
• Integer Multiplication
• Fast Square Root
• Filling memory with a byte
• Square Root
• Precalculated square
• Random Number Generator
• Sin/Cos calculation

CP/M

• A simple 'Hello World' program for CP/M using BDOS
• Executing firmware functions from within CP/M 2.1
• Executing firmware functions from within CP/M 2.1 or CP/M plus
• Executing firmware functions from within CP/M 2.1
• Executing firmware functions from within CP/M plus

CPC Plus

• Hardware sprites
• Horizontal scroll
• RLE hardware sprites
• Screen splitting
• Unlocking ASIC
• Vertical scroll
• Simple Raster Example 1 (uses CPC plus features)
• Programming:Simple Raster Example 2 (uses CPC plus features)

Devices

• CPC Booster
• Digiblaster
• Program to save the ROM of the Multiface 2
• SYMBiFACE II

File access

• An example to read a file byte-by-byte
• An example to write a file byte-by-byte
• A simple file copier using firmware functions (copies byte-by-byte)
• Loading a file
• Saving a file

Floppy disk

• A simple disc copier using BDOS functions
• A simple disc formatter using BDOS functions
• An example loader
• Detecting an Amstrad or Vortex disc controler
• Formatting a track on a disc
• Reading a sector from a disc
• Writing a sector to disc

Graphics

• Display a 8-bit number in binary
• Display a 8-bit number in hex
• Display a byte as a 3-digit decimal number
• Distorting the screen using register 2 of the CRTC (Horizontal Sync Position)
• Fast plot
• Fast Sprites by Executioner
• Fast Textoutput by Prodatron
• Hardware Scrolling by Executioner
• Hardware Scrolling 2
• Hardware scrolling the screen horizontally byte-by-byte using the CRTC
• Hardware scrolling the screen using the CRTC
• Overscan
• Plotting a sprite using character matrices
• Simple Raster Example
• Simple Split Raster Example

Keyboard

• Keyboard scanning

Other routines

• An example boot sector (executed with rsx command CPM)
• An example to define a RSX
• Calling a RSX from outside of BASIC
• Dumping the data of BASIC or AMSDOS or an expansion rom
• Dumping the data of the lower rom