Fully Commented Commodore 64 ROM Disassembly (English)
After last week’s German C64 ROM disassembly from the “64 intern” book, I have now also converted Lee Davison’s commented disassembly into the same format.
Fully Commented Commodore 64 ROM Disassembly (German)
Whenever I need to look up some code in the ROM of the Commodore 64, I have the choice of the commented disassembly by Marko Mäkelä, the one by Ninja/The Dreams, or the one by Lee Davison – or I can just use my paper copy of “Das neue Commodore-64-intern-Buch“, an excellent line-by-line commentary in German.
Wikileaks Movie "The Fifth Estate" pirated my "Xbox Hacking" Slides
Xbox hacking has made it to the silver screen, and Felix Domke and me (Michael Steil) are movie stars! …and so are at least 14 of my presentation slides!
Rhapsody Developer's Guide [PDF, 1997]
Feiler, Jesse.
Rhapsody Developer’s Guide.
Boston: AP Professional, 1997.
ISBN 0-12-251334-7
(528 pages, 13.3 MB PDF)
Why is my TI-99/4A in Black and White?
by James Abbatiello
Clockslide: How to waste an exact number of clock cycles on the 6502
by Sven Oliver ‘SvOlli’ Moll; the original German language version has been simultaneously posted on his blog.
Assembly Evolution Part 1: Accessing Memory and the strange case of the Intel 4004
by Julien Oster, reprinted with permission.
The story of 15 Second Copy for the C-64
by Mike Pall, published with permission.
The story of FCopy for the C-64
by Thomas Tempelmann, reprinted with permission.
Chaosradio Express #177: Commodore 64
(This article is about a German-language podcast episode on the C64.)
Inside Commodore DOS [PDF]
Racism in Monstropolis
Sometimes, freezeframe fun does not provide fun, but sadness.
Gate A20
Commodore 128 Programmer's Reference Guide (PDF)
SCUMM Script
Ron Gilbert posted this as a comment on The Mansion – Technical Aspects, I am re-posting it here as an article.
The Mansion – Technical Aspects
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It seems that a lot of readers of pagetable.com are fans of SCUMM games like Maniac Mansion (and at least one is their creator). Here is a puzzle for you (credits go to Bernhard Bauer):
Limitations in Maniac Mansion
In (any version of) Maniac Mansion, if one kid is in the hallway with Green Tentacle, any other kid (even Syd and Razor) will refuse to go up the stairs to that hallway: “I’m not going up there… that monster’s got my friend!”
What Operating System Has Crashed Here?
(Read comments for solution.)
The Double Inverted Inconsistency Principle
In a discussion, when pointing out inconsistencies in your opponent’s opinion by giving two examples that you disagree with, remember that it can be made into a point against you, just by inverting the two examples – plus/minus some rhetorical decoration.