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14 Feb 1999

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  The West book has been a treasure to me. 
I've
 known of it since I was a teenaged PET hacker, but never saw one to buy.  
 If that's what I think it is, I want one too.  I've been trying to find
 one forever, but I couldn't recall the title or the author's name.  Could
 you post some more information about it? 
Raeto West, "Programming the PET/CBM".  It packed with lots of esoteric
information including stuff on non-Commodore disks, assembly fragments to
do useful things, many BASIC examples and more.

I still program for the PET, but these days, for speed of developement, I
use VICE and emulate the PET on my SPARCstation.  I did finally manage to
port Zork I from the C-64 to the 40-col BASIC 2 PET.  Something about
BASIC 4 is clobbering bits of memory, but I don't know where (could be the
DS/DS$ stuff; it s very convoluted).

-ethan

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