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Table of Contents

Features

6. "Polygonamy": A Study in 3 Dimensions by Stephen Judd

Did you ever feel real time 3 Dimensional graphics was just asking too much from a Commodore 64? Well, ask no more, as Stephen shows us just hoiw it can be done. The 64 steps up to the challenge of displaying correctly rendered shaded 3D polygons right before your very eyes.

9. Underneath the Hood of the SuperCPU by Jim Brain

Delve into the technical details of this new accelerator under development by CMD. Jim will explain its advantages over existing offering, epxlain the features it provides, and dispel some myths about the unit.

Columns

4. Hi Tech Trickery by Doug Cotton

Trying to switch from 128 mode to 64 mode on a C128 without human intervwention is triccky. Doing it on modified KERNAL ROMs is doubly so. Doug details a routine that will work regardless of the ROM in use.

12. Hacking Graphics by Harsfalvi Levente

All you Commodore Plus/4 lovers, listen up. Harsfalve delves into the Commodore Plus/4 TED chip, explains its many functions and details its various registers. Do you know all the things the TED chip does in addition to handle video. Now you'll know.

Departments

1. The (cough,cough) Hacking Editor

2. Input/Output

3. Newsfront

5. Hacking the Mags

7. UseNuggets

7. FODO's Nuggets

9. Hack Surfing

11. Commodore Trivia

13. ? DS, DS$: rem The Error Channel

14. The Next Hack

15. Hacking the Code

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