Commander X16

Involving the 65c816 is a messy can-of-worms... 65816...no "c". The chip is the W65C816S. So yes, a "C". You can make the case that the CPU family is the 65816 (without the C), since the instruction set is used by things other than the W65C816S, but we are literally using the WD...

What ever became of Jestin's attempt at this very project, essentially a rewrite of the VIC-20's user guide for the X16? It seems to have stalled out; the last commit was 2 moths ago. It looks like Jestin is still plugging away, but his project has only ever had 5 contributors. I don't know about o...

If you're talking about the VIC-20 "Personal Computing Guide", I've read a few chapters of it and I like it so far. I think it'd be a relatively safe thing to print too, unless there are plans to completely change how the editor works, or how BASIC works on a fundamental level. The good n...

I would start with the Commodore VIC-20 User's Guide, which does an excellent job teaching BASIC. Then I'd modify the machine-specific instructions to work with the Commander. I consider that book the gold standard. So if we were to start breaking down that book’s structure and re-creating a simila...

We don't need to re-invent the wheel. We just need to adapt it to fit our application. I would start with the Commodore VIC-20 User's Guide, which does an excellent job teaching BASIC. Then I'd modify the machine-specific instructions to work with the Commander. For example: the section that talks a...

I would not use the online emulator for anything other than brief demos. It's a bit out of date, and it's far from efficient. Grab the emulator from https://github.com/X16Community/x16-emulator/releases/tag/r48 The emulator also comes with the "Programmer's Reference Manual", which is stil...

You can post it in the Games topic of the Downloads area (even if it's just a link to your site, that's fine.)

And if you have a beta during development, you can use the Works In-Progress Discussion area to discuss it.

Hi, all. We've trimmed down the forums a little bit, and gotten rid of most of the general conversation groups (aka the "Lounge.") We would like to generally keep the forums on-topic and directly related to the Commander X16. When we first started the forums, we had the idea of making this...

So, what's the diffrence between a "guide" and a "tutorial"? A tutorial is a step by step set of instructions for performing a specific task. A guide supplies reference information and covers a topic in a broader sense. So a tutorial might tell you how to play "Daisy" ...

Just to make things interesting.... LCDs work in reverse of CRT monitors. That is, when an LCD cell is energized, it is black . So a a proper screen saver on an LCD panel would be an all-white screen. However, as others have suggested, the correct way to put the monitor into power save mode is to tu...