VZ200 Technical Reference Manual
Summary & Author
Published 1983 by Dick Smith Management Pty Ltd (Sydney, Australia). Sold as catalogue item B-7204 for $9.50. 22 pages plus 7 schematics. ISBN 0 949772 18 6.
To quote the introduction: "This manual is designed to provide owners of the Dick Smith VZ-200 Personal Colour Computer with additional information to assist in programming, operation and expansion."
Jamieson Rowe wrote and compiled this manual. Better known as Jim Rowe, he was editor of Electronics Australia from 1965 - 1979 and then from 1987 - 1999. When he wrote the manual he was employed by Dick Smith Electronics as a technical 'guru'.
Chapters
- The Basic Computer
- VZ-200 Memory Map
- The Keyboard Matrix
- I/O Mapping
- Cassette/Speaker/VDC Output Latch
- Video Display Modes
- Text/lo-res graphics mode (mode 0)
- Hi-res graphics only mode (mode 1)
- VZ-200 Screen Control Codes
- System Pointers, etc
- Reserving Space for a Machine Code program
- Finding the Top of Your VZ-200's Memory
- Calling a Machine Code Routine from BASIC
- Useful ROM Subroutines for Assembly Programming
- VZ-200 Video Worksheets & Schematic Circuits
Download
A version of the manual in PDF format can be found at [vz200.org].
Sources: VZ200 Technical Reference Manual, Silicon Chip website ([Silicon Chip - About])
