_{Cover of the December 1982 issue of Commander}

Commander was one of the earlier Commodore magazines featuring the VIC-20, Commodore 64, PET, and other 8-bit Commodore computers. The December 1982 issue includes:

PET/CBM

• All About CB2 Sound - An unofficial hardware/software solution for creating sound on the PET.


• No Cost Memory Expansion and Its Uses - How to access an extra 24 or 48 bytes of memory for your PET.

VIC-20

• A Beauty of a Utility ROM - An overview of The Basic Utility Program by United Microware Industries. This was available as a cartridge or as chips that plug into an expansion board and provided seventeen new commands including things like Find (finds a string), Repeat (turns automatic key repeat on or off) and Dump (displays variables and their values) among others.


• VICOMON - A Machine Language Monitor for the VIC-20 - What you need to convert assembly programs into machine language on your VIC-20.


• Ravings of a Madman - Why use a VIC-20 with so many more powerful computers available? This article answer that question...


• RAM/ROM On the VIC for $2.00 - How to turn your RAM cartridge into a ROM cartridge by building a simple switch. RAM cartridges were available for the VIC-20 as memory expansion in 3K, 8K and 16K sizes.

_{Table of Contents from the December 1982 issue of Commander}

64

• PEEK & POKE - How to use the SYS command to control the cursor, how to selectively turn on key repeat using POKE commands, how to redefine device numbers, how to read joystick input and more.

PET

• Stock Plot Chart - A type-in program that plots stock prices. Manual data input is required.

Special Features

• Assembly Language Programming on the VIC - The first in a series of articles designed to teach the basics of assembly language programming on the 6502 and VIC-20.


• Word Pro + TP - I = Word Processing - A "cheap" full-featured word processing system using a CBM 8032, CBM 8050 disk drive, Word Pro IV Plus software and Smith Corona printer.

Departments

• Letters to the Editor - Praise for Commander and the VIC-20.


• Editorial - An introduction to Commander and optimism for the technical explosion occurring in the 1980s.


• News Releases - New encryption devices for Commodore computers, Exchange - a disk controller and software package to read IBM disks on PET computers, and more.

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