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C 0 T E T S

ISSUE 16

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1996

COMMODORE

WORLD

THE NEWS MAGAZINE FOE1 COMMODORE F.4 g 120 II w !!',

14 CoriMODOCB DEM05 bySherryFreedliw

Part two ofourscries uikcsa look aifour mure greatdemoprograms.

16 Neljdal Network on a ConnoDoeE 64 byjaim Wtdker

Find out how Computers dijferfroni human bruins.

20 A 6502 Pgogrammer's Introduction to the 65916 byBrets

Learn how WDC's superprocessor differsfrom whatyou're used lo.

57 A Grower's Guide to User Groups byJaymeRice

Gel somelintlipson drawingnew members In your group,

General Manager

CharlesR. Christiansen

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Editor

Doug Cotton

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Advertising Sales

CharlesA, Chrislianson

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PHOTOGBAPHr

Wayne Wrubcl

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Graphic Acts

Doug CotIcn

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Electronic Pde-Ppess & Printing

Mansir/Holden

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CoverDesign by Doug Cotton

Reviews

30 GAMES byJasonCampionandSitcnyFreedtine

Forgotten Worlds, Grand Prix Circuit, andDeath Sword.

32 The Software Manual: Programi-iing the 65616 byMm Brain

hind ou! about WDC's reference book on programming-

COL_UMt\JS

10 Just Fop Startles byJason Compton

Find out what you can Jo with the User Port.

12 Graphic Interpretation byPaulSullivan

Lookingforsome geoWrite goodies?

34 The StSop's Corner byMaxCottrei

Create ANSImenusforyour UBS.

36 Carrier Detect byGaelynsR. Gassoa

Learn hoiv lo transferfiles on the Internet with FIT.

42 GEOPROGBAMMIST byMaurice Randall

Find out howyour GEOS applications can create datafiles:

44 Assembly Line byJim Bmierfieid

All inside look at the Processor Status registerflags.

46 Peripheral Vision byJimButurfieid

An overview ofhow Commodore'speripheral bus operates.

46 Basic Instincts byDavidPankhursi

Morefractalprogramming.'

48 OVER THE EDGE by HaroldStevens. Jr.

Piraies are still sailing in the Commodore scene.

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There's noquestion that this most rnccntcyclehas

been ahedicone. Ournewassistanteditordidn't

w«rkout, sowe'reback tolookingforsomeone to fill

that position. In themeantime, alltheediting, layout,

and graphics creation that goes into each issue has

fallen back intomy lap. Inaddition,we've lost our

photographer, Wayne, who wasalsoCMD'srepair

technician.Thelatterspothas been Tilled, butwe'll

need to figure outwhal to dolor photographs in

Upcomingissues. Despitethese hurdles, we've

managed to nudge the page count hack up to 56, and

1 thinkwe've produced a very well-rounded issue. Of

course, 1 may be somewhatbiased.

There'ssomebad news... afewhardwareitems

have quietlydissappeared from the supply chain in

the last (vw months. Notably missing in action:

CMD'sFD-4000,theSuper 1750Clone,

SupcrSnapshot, Action-Replay, VDCRAM Expansion

kits, anddisk drive RAM Expansion kits. These arc

sadlosses, as there reallyaren't any productsleftthat

directly replace orduplicatewhat theseproductsdid.

When suppliers runout of1581 drives, no big deal,

there arc FD-2000drives that can pretty much

directly replace them; but losingboth SuperSnapshot

andAction-Replayleaves users without any means to

captureprogramsfor archiving or operatingIroni

devices like CMD's IID. Expect to see some rise in the

value ofthese items in theused market.

There are some positivethings happening, as well,

though... CMD'sSoperCPU fi4 hasstarted shipping,

andwork on the 128 version is now underway.

Maurice Randall has new versionsofGeoFAXand

GeoSHELI.coiningalong soon, andhe has also

confirmed that he isn'tfarofl'from releasing a new

GHOSdriver/Configurepackage that will reportedly

revolutionizedevicehandlingunder GHOS. Nick

Rossi's Novaterm 9.6 is nowshipping on disk, and

has broughtusZmodem.Ymodem-G, anda lot of

otherImprovements,There areothersoftware

developments under way, too... Mall Desmond

appears to be workingregularly on his new version of

Desterm, Electric Boys recentlysent us some images

created bya new C64interlacedgraphics editor that

they are workingon, and CMD is finishing up

documentation for an English languageversion of

GoDot CMD isalso headingupprojects toproduce a

new 65816assembler (SAS)anda machine language

monitor(SuperJifryMON). both largeted at

SuperCPU developers: there are also indications that

thelong-awaited Menuette 128maybebackon track

for release, along with an updated 64 version. So

there are indeed some thingsfor users to look

forward lo over the uexl lew months.

Meanwhile, ihere are some reallynice things to see

in this issueofCommodoreWorld. Sherry Freedline

bringsushersecond installmenton Commodore

demo programs; there'saveryinterestingarticle

about how computers and human brainsdiffer, along

with a type-in program that lets the M emulate the

brain'sability to recognize patterns; lirettTabke

introduces the 65816 to fi502/fi510 programmers

(we'veaddeda useful opcodelistandinformative

programmingmodels to ihis); andJayme Rice,

President ofTCUG, presents someexcellent ideason

promotinggrowth ofusergroups. In our regular

columns, Budout what the User Port isgood lor{Just

ForStarters), how to create fractalimages (BASIC

Instincts), andhowto useInternet file Transfer

Protocol {CarrierDetect). We've also been rejoined

thisissue byHarold Stevens,Jr., who tacklesthe

touchysubject ofsoftwarepiracy inOver TheEdge, So

what are doingstill readingthiseditorial? Dive in!

Doug Cotton

Editor

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