Programming in Assembly with VICMON on the VIC-20
VICMON is a machine language monitor released by Commodore in 1982 and is great for programming the VIC-20. Its interactive nature means that it can often be quicker to develop via this rather than us...
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Storing Machine Code in REM Statements on the VIC-20
BASIC programs often contain machine code routines but they take up quite a lot of space in BASIC. An interesting way to reduce the amount of space that they take is to store the machine code in REM s...
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Re-execute Programs in Memory on CP/M
After a transient program terminates on CP/M it's often possible to re-execute it in memory without having to reload it from disk. This is a great little trick if using slow disks as it's much quicke...
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Visualizing Zero Page on the Commodore VIC-20
The VIC-20 is a very flexible little machine and allows us to choose which area of memory represents the screen map. One interesting thing we can do is use this to visualize a section of memory such ...
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Code and Data in Display Memory on the VIC-20
The unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 only had 5K of RAM and therefore creative ways had to be found to maximize the available RAM. The display memory would use some of this memory and therefore one option ...
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