Table of Contents
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Features | |
Speed up RAMLink transfers with the Double-DMA Technique | |
RAMLink Designer Mark Fellows and Technical Editor Doug Cotton of CMD describe a way of using a Commodore REU to increase transfer rates of the CMD RAMLink to one-half the speed of the REU transfer rate. |
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Doug Cotton, Mark Fellows |
The Graphics Toolbox | |
To add another tool to our toolbox, Stephen details a new algorithm for drawing ellipses. Some improvements to the circle routine in a previous column that will enable it to draw perfect circles of any radius is discussed, as well as details on using logarithms to perform division. |
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Stephen L. Judd |
Design and Implementation of an Advanced Text Editor | |
Peer into the internal organization and implementation of an advanced text editor/word processor for the ACE environment. Relevant data structure, global variables, display maintenance, text "sloshing", and algorithms for many editing commands are detailed. |
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Craig S. Bruce |
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Columns | |
Hi Tech Trickery | |
Don't let anyone ever tell you the SID chip is only capable of 4 bit sample playback. George Taylor explains using the digi dithering technique to increase the SID's resolution. |
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George Taylor |
Hacking Graphics | |
Dig into this overview on how to set up the VIC-II to display Doodle and KOALA format pictures. The two formats are detailed, and similar formats are referenced. |
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Rick Mosdell |
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Departments | |
The (cough,cough) Hacking Editor | |
Jim Brain |
Input/Output | |
Newsfront | |
Hacking the Mags | |
UseNuggets | |
Hack Surfing | |
Commodore Trivia | |
Jim Brain |
? DS, DS$: rem The Error Channel | |
The Next Hack | |