$1C0) What are the two configurations for the LORAM, HIRAM, GAME, and EXROM
pins that will allow the use of a full 64kB of RAM in the C64?
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There are actually 4 configurations, in two categories:
LORAM 0 0 (X means either 1 or 0)
HIRAM 0 0
GAME 1 X
EXROM X 0
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$1C1) What is the first thing that the C64 (and VIC) KERNAL does upon
powerup?
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The first thing each does is reset the stack pointer to $ff.
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$1C2) What KERNAL routine is used to set a DOS channel to input?
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$1C3) What KERNAL routine is used to set a DOS channel to output?
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$1C4) Before calling the routines in $1C2 and $1C3, what register must
you load?
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You must load .X with the logical file number.
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$1C5) What 3 devices can the KERNAL NOT load from?
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keyboard (0), RS-232 (2), or screen (3). The first and last are
somewhat obvious, but allowing RS-232 loads would have made
loading from a remote machine possible. Incidentally, you can't
save to any of these devices, either.
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$1C6) In the Commodore KERNAL, there are "high" and "low" level routines.
To which class of routines does "SECOND" belong?
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low. It is used to specify the secondary address, as the '7' in
open 4,4,7.
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$1C7) If a programmer calls the KERNAL routine "STOP" and the RUN/STOP
key is NOT pressed, what is returned in the .A register?
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.A will contain a byte representing the last row of the keyboard
scan.
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$1C8) The Commodore KERNAL routines are all accessed via a jump table.
What routine is used to change the values in the KERNAL jump table?
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The appropriately named VECTOR ($ff8d) call, which few programmers
actually use.
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$1C9) A call is made to a KERNAL routine, the call returns with the C
bit set and the .A register holds $02. What error does this
indicate?
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$1CA) If a call to READST is made, and a $40 is returned in .A, what
does this indicate?
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$1CB) What routine can be called to determine the physical format of the
Commodore 64 screen in characters?
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The also appropriately named SCREEN ($ffed) call.
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$1CC) The Commodore 64 starts a non-destructive RAM test at what location?
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$1CD) Which way does the RAM test proceed: up or down?
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$1CE) Which KERNAL routine is used ONLY in conjunction with a Commodore
IEEE card?
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SETTMO ($ffa2), which sets the IEEE bus card timeout flag. I infer
that Commodore thought many people would use the IEEE interface.
(Anyone know any more about this?)
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$1CF) Many hybrid BASIC/ML programs use SYS to transfer control from BASIC
to ML. However, a few use USR(X). When using the latter function,
where does BASIC fetch the ML routine's starting address from?
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785 and 786, in classic LO:HI format.
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