C= Hacking Net-Magazine

Here is the semi-famous C= Hacking net magazine. It specializes in deeply technical material for Commodore computers (mostly the C64 and C128) and has even been compared to the immortal The Transactor magazine. The official C= Hacking site is The Fridge.

Issue #1 (January 1992)

Contents:

• Beginning ML - Part One -- by Craig Taylor
• 6502 Opcodes and Quasi-Opcodes -- compiled by Craig Taylor
• Simple Hires Line Drawing Package for the C-128 80-Column Screen -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #2 (April 1992)

Contents:

• Beginning ML #2 -- by Craig Taylor
• An In-Depth Look at the 8563 Video Chip on the C= 128 -- compiled by Craig Taylor (C128)
• File Splitter -- by Mark Lawrence (MS-DOS)
• Banking On GEOS -- by Robert A. Knop Jr. (GEOS/C128)
• Dynamic Memory Allocation for the 128: Breaking the 64K Barrier -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #3 (July 1992)

Contents:

• Learning ML - Part 3 -- by Craig Taylor
• The Demo Corner: Missing Cycles -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala
• Kernal 64/128 -- by Craig Taylor
• 64K VDC RAM and an alternate GEOS128 Background Screen -- by Robert A. Knop Jr. (GEOS/C128)
• GeoPaint File Format -- by Bruce Vrieling (GEOS)
• Rasters - What They Are and How to Use Them -- by Bruce Vrieling (C64)
• Bursting Your 128: The Fastload Burst Command -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #4 (October 1992)

Contents:

• Learning ML - Part 4 -- by Craig Taylor (C128/C64)
• The Demo Corner: FLI - more color to the screen -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• RS-232 Converter -- by Warren Tustin
• Introduction to the VIC-II -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64/C128)
• Little Red Reader: MS-DOS file reader for the 128 and 1571/81 drives -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #5 (March 1993)

Contents:

• Stretching Sprites -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• Rob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented and Explained -- by Anthony McSweeney (C64)
• ZPM3 and ZCCP Enhancements for CP/M Plus from Simeon Cran -- by Randy Winchester (CP/M)
• Multi-Tasking on the C=128 - Part 1 -- by Craig Taylor (C128)
• Little Red Writer: MS-DOS file reader/writer for the C128 and 1571/81 -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Mail-Server Documentation -- by Craig Taylor
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #6 (September 1993)

Contents:

• DYCP - Horizontal Scrolling -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• Opening the borders -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• A Heavy-Duty Power Supply for the C-64 -- by John C. Andrews (C64)
• LZW Compression -- by Bill Lucier (C128/C64)
• Three-Key Rollover for the C-128 and C-64 -- by Craig Bruce (C128/C64)
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #7 (February 1994)

Contents:

• Internet Resources for the Commodore 64/128 -- by Craig Taylor
• Hiding Kilobytes -- by Marko Makela (C64)
• FLD - Scrolling the Screen -- by Marek Klampar (C64)
• Tech-tech - more resolution to vertical shift -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• ACE-128/64 Programmer's Reference Guide (for Release #10) -- by Craig Bruce (C128/C64)
• Commodore Trivia Corner -- by Jim Brain
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #8 (August 1994)

Contents:

• RS232 Converter -- by Walter Wickersham
• Programming the Commodore RAM Expansion Units (REUs) -- by Richard Hable
• A Different Perspective: Three-Dimensional Graphics on the C64 -- by Stephen Judd and George Taylor (C64)
• Design of a 'Real' Operating System for the 128: Part I -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Commodore Trivia Corner -- by Jim Brain
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #9 (January 1995)

Contents:

• A Different Perspective, Part II -- by George Taylor and Stephen Judd (C64)
• 2D Graphics Toolbox - Circles -- by Stephen Judd (C128)
• AFLI-specs v1.0 -- by written by D'Arc/Topaz for Chief/Padua (C64)
• Coding Tricks -- by Paul van Loon
• C.S. Bruce Interview -- by Craig Taylor
• Aligning 1541 Drives -- by Ward Shrake
• Commodore Trivia Corner -- by Jim Brain
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor

Issue #10 (June 1995) (v1.5)

Contents:

• BFLI - New graphics modes 2 -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (C64)
• Making stable raster routines (C64 and VIC-20) -- by Marko Makela (C64/VIC)
• A Different Perspective, part III -- by Stephen Judd and George Taylor (C64)
• Second SID Chip Installation -- by Mark A. Dickenson (C64/C128)
• Solving Large Systems of Linear Equations on a C64 Without Memory -- by Alan Jones (C64)
• The World of IRC - A New Life for the C64/128 -- by Bill Lueck
• SwiftLink-232 Application Notes -- Creative Micro Designs
• Design and Implementation of a Simple/Efficient Upload/Download Protocol -- by Craig Bruce (C128/C64)
• Design and Implementation of a 'Real' Operating System for the 128: Part II -- by Craig Bruce (C128)
• Commodore Trivia -- by Jim Brain
• Editor's Notes -- by Craig Taylor and Jim Brain

Issue #11 (December 1995) (v1.0)

Contents:

• The (cough,cough) Hacking Editor -- by Jim Brain
• Input/Output -- by Jim Brain
• Newsfront -- by Jim Brain
• Hacking the Mags -- by Jim Brain
• UseNuggets -- by Jim Brain
• Hack Surfing -- by Jim Brain
• Speed up RAMLink transfers with the Double-DMA Technique -- by Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows
• The Graphics Toolbox -- by Stephen Judd
• Design and Implementation of an Advanced Text Editor -- by Craig Bruce
• Hi Tech Trickery -- by George Taylor
• Hacking Graphics by Rick Mosdell
• ? DS, DS$: rem The Error Channel -- by Jim Brain
• The Next Hack -- by Jim Brain
• Commodore Trivia -- by Jim Brain
• Various Columns (editor's message, news, etc.) -- by Jim Brain

Issue #12 (March 1996) (v1.1)

Contents:

• The Hacking Editor -- by Jim Brain
• Input/Output -- by Jim Brain
• Newsfront -- by Jim Brain
• RUN64: Moving to 64 Mode -- by Doug Cotton
• Hacking the Mags -- by Jim Brain
• Polygonamy: A Study in 3 Dimensions -- by Stephen L. Judd
• UseNuggets -- by Jim Brain
• FIDO's Nuggets -- by Jim Brain
• Underneath the Hood of the SuperCPU -- by Jim Brain
• Talking to TED: The MOS 7360/8360 Text Display ICs -- by Harsfalvi Levente
• Commodore Trivia -- by Jim Brain
• Various Columns (editor's message, news, etc.) -- by Jim Brain

Issue #13 (July 1996) (v1.0)

Contents:

• OS/A65: A Multitasking Operating System -- by Andre Fachat
• Using UQWK with QWKRR128 -- by Gaelyne Moranec
• Brad Templeton: The Programmer's Friend -- An Interview by Jim Lawless
• Hacking Graphics -- by Stephen Judd
• Exploiting the 65C816S CPU -- by Jim Brain
• Using HTML on the Commodore, Part 1 -- by Jim Brain
• Hi Tech Trickery -- by Alan Jones
• Hacking Graphics -- by Todd Elliott
• Commodore Trivia -- by Jim Brain
• Various Columns (editor's message, news, etc.) -- by Jim Brain

Issue #14 (November 1996) (v1.0)

Contents:

• The Commodore Telnet BBS -- by Bo Zimmerman
• Menu Toolbox III -- by Jeff Jones
• The CMD Nirvana: The Guts and Glory -- by Todd Elliott
• Jim Butterfield: The Commodore Guru -- an interview by Jim Lawless
• Hi Tech Trickery -- by Alan Jones
• Hacking BASICs -- by Richard T. Cunningham
• Twiddling the Bits -- by Ward Shrake
• Commodore Trivia -- by Jim Brain
• Various Columns (editor's message, news, etc.) -- by Jim Brain

Issue #15 (April 1998)

Contents:

• Click to Mode Switch: The 40-80 Mouse switch -- by Michael Nausch
• The Canonical List of Commodore Produced Products, v2.0 -- by Jim Brain
• Scott Ballantyne: Blazing into Forth -- an Interview by Jim Lawless
• Technical Information on the VIC-20 -- by Ward Shrake
• Hi Tech Trickery -- by Sean Adams
• Hacking BASICs -- by Richard T. Cunningham
• Twiddling the Bits -- by Frank Kontros
• Various Columns (editor's message, news, etc.) -- by Jim Brain

Issue #16 (April 1998)

Contents:

• Compression Basics -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala
• 3D for the Masses: Cool World and the 3D Library -- by S. Judd
• PAL VIC20 goes NTSC -- by Timo Raita
• Starfields -- by S. Judd
• Milestones of C64 Data Compression -- by Pontus Berg
• Various Columns (BSOUT, Jiffies, The C=Hallenge) -- by

Issue #17 (November 1998)

Contents:

• An Optimizing Hybrid LZ77 RLE Data Compression Program, aka Improving Compression Ratio for Low-Resource Decompression -- by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala
• VIC-20 Kernel ROM Disassembly Project -- by Richard Cini
• NTSC/PAL fixing, part I, by Russell Reed, Robin Harbron, and S. Judd
• The Herd Mentality -- by Bil Herd
• SuperCPU Software Repair -- by S. Judd
• Various Columns (BSOUT, Jiffies, The C=Hallenge) -- by Stephen L. Judd

Issue #18 (July 1999)

Contents:

• VIC-20 Kernel ROM Disassembly Project -- by Richard Cini
• A Diehard Programmer's Introduction to GEOS, and geoWrite Disassembly Notes -- by Todd S. Elliott
• NTSC/PAL fixing: FLI -- by Russell Reed
• Obj3d: The 3D object library -- by S. Judd
• Data Structures 101: Linked Lists -- by S. Judd and Pasi Ojala
• Counting Sort -- by Pasi Ojala
• Various Columns (BSOUT, Jiffies, The C=Hallenge) -- by Stephen L. Judd

Issue #19 (May 29, 2000)

Available in ascii-text (184k) or html (184k, only 1/2 converted) formats.

Contents:

• Burst Fastloader for the C64 -- by Pasi Ojala
• 8000's User Port & Centronics Printers -- by Ken Ross
• Sex, lies, and microkernal-based 65816 native OSes, part 1 -- by Jolse Maginnis
• VIC-20 Kernel ROM Disassembly Project -- by Richard Cini
• Decoding JPEGs (on a C64) -- Stephen Judd
• Bringing 'true color' images to the 64 -- by Adrian Gonzalez
• Various Columns (BSOUT, Jiffies) -- by Stephen L. Judd

Issue #20 (April 18, 2001)

Available in ascii-text (183k) format.

Contents:

• Super/Turbo CPU VDC Hack -- by Henry Sopko
• 16K Memory Expansion for the VIC-20 -- by Per Olofsson
• Quick Quadratic Splines -- by S. Judd
• VIC-20 Kernal ROM Disassembly Project -- by Richard Cini
• MODs and Digital Mixing -- by Jolse Maginnis
• The C64 Digi -- by Robin Harbron, Levente Hársfalvi, Stephen Judd

Issue #21 (February 5, 2002)

Available in ascii-text (188k) format.

Contents:

• Pulse Width Modulation, continued -- by various
• Introducing Full-Screen IFLI Mode With a SuperCPU -- by Todd Elliot
• VIC-20 Kernal Disassembly Project, Part IV -- by Richard Cini
• The Art of the Minigame -- by various
  • Codebreaker -- by David Holz
  • TinyPlay -- by S. Judd
  • MagerTris -- by Per Olofsson
  • Compressing Tiny Programs -- by S. Judd
  • Tinyrinth -- by Mark Seelye
  • Tetrattack! -- by S. Judd