{"id":630,"date":"2011-06-28T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2011-06-28T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T09:00:50","slug":"inside-commodore-dos-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Inside Commodore DOS [PDF]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"docs\/Inside Commodore DOS.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/Inside Commodore DOS.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"581.5\"><br \/>\nRichard Immers and Gerald G. Neufeld:<br \/>Inside Commodore DOS : the complete guide to the 1541 disk operating system.<br \/>Northridge, Calif. : Datamost, 1985.<br \/>ISBN 0-8359-3091-2<\/a><br \/>(512 pages, 7.4 MB PDF)<\/p>\n<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?cat=9\">quest to preserve retrocomputing documents<\/a>, here is the invaluable book &#8220;Inside Commodore DOS&#8221;, which describes most of the internals of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. The scanning was done in 2002 by <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/incdos\/files\/\">Kenneth S. Moore<\/a>, who in 2005 released an OCRed version, which unfortunately replaced the original page images. My version here comes with the original page images and a table of contents, and is nevertheless fully searchable.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a fun quote from the book by the way:<\/p>\n<p><cite>Over the years numerous writers have advised Commodore owners not to use the save and replace command because it contained a bug. Our study of the ROM routines and a lot of testing has convinced us that the bug in the replace command is a myth.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_DOS#The_save-with-replace_bug\">wrong<\/a>. Don&#8217;t use &#8220;SAVE@&#8221; on a 1541.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Immers and Gerald G. Neufeld:Inside Commodore DOS : the complete guide to the 1541 disk operating system.Northridge, Calif. : Datamost, 1985.ISBN 0-8359-3091-2(512 pages, 7.4 MB PDF) In my quest to preserve retrocomputing documents, here is the invaluable book &#8220;Inside Commodore DOS&#8221;, which describes most of the internals of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. The &#8230; <a title=\"Inside Commodore DOS [PDF]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=630\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside Commodore DOS [PDF]\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-archeology","category-commodore","category-floppy-disks","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}