This section contains info on how to access various kinds of peripheral I/O hardware such as the keyboard, joysticks, serial devices and so on. It also contains info on communications programming, such as modem protocols.

• Detect Drives on IEC Bus - by Todd S. Elliott

These are general file IO functions, not restricted to a certain type of hardware.

• DOS examples - a few sourcecodes on how to use DOS/KERNAL calls, by Graham
• How The VIC/64 Serial Bus Works - by Jim Butterfield
• Making use of the fastload/save in the cartridge - Various people

• Flexloader 3.0 - IRQ/Fast loader (1541 only!) by Jayce / Focus
• Disk loader with flashing border (For non-fastload) - by Richard Bayliss
• Autostarting Disk Files by TFG/MMD
• Formatting disks - Various people
• Electronic Arts Fat Tracks File Buster - by Fungus
• Hardware diagnostics - In case your 1541 drive is broken, check this.
• Drivecode - by Bitbreaker/Oxyron^Arsenic^Nuance
• Fastloaders - by Bitbreaker/Oxyron^Arsenic^Nuance

• IRQ-Tape Loader - aka "rant 8" - Tutorial by Laze Ristoski (Cybertronic Studios)
• Autoboot tape turbo loader - How to create an auto-booting tape turbo loader by Martin Piper
• Cult Loader - Disassembled by Fungus
• Turbo250 disassembled - The classic Turbo250 by Mr.Z/Triad disassembled by FTC/HT.
• TurboTape loader source - minimal setup to load Turbo Tape data by enthusi/Onslaught
• FreeLoad V5.0 Saver - by Paul Hughes. Used by Ocean.

By Fungus. Either of these two shell routines is to be used with each of the transfer routines below:

• Tape transfer shell - by Fungus
• Newshell - by Fungus

The xfer routines below are to be used for reading originals using various loaders and storing them onto disk:

• Burner tape transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• CHR Tape to Disk Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• CHR Load Tape Transfer 2.0 - by Fungus
• Ocean/Imagine Transfer - v1 - by Fungus
• Ocean/Imagine Transfer - v2 - by Fungus
• Ocean/Imagine Transfer - v3 - by Fungus
• Novaload Tape Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• Novaload Special Tape Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• C= Pavloda Transfer 1.0a - by Fungus
• ROM-load - by Fungus
• U.S.Gold Tape Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• Virgin Tape Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus
• Wildload Tape Transfer 1.0 - by Fungus

• HD-Park-Switch - How to Patch a CMD-HD to your own needs - in Domination #17 by Ninja/The Dreams.

• Reading the Keyboard - by Various
• Robust String Input - by Schema
• IP Address Input - by Schema
• THREE-KEY ROLLOVER for the C=128 and C=64 - by Craig Bruce (from C=Hacking #6)
• Scanning the keyboard the correct and non KERNAL way - by TWW/CTR
• Print Stringchain - Tiny solution for printing given stringchains - by ABujok
• Scanning the keyboard without joysticks interfere - by Erhan

• Tiny .A to Decimal 3-Digit String Conversion
• 32 bit hexadecimal to decimal conversion - by Graham
• Hex String to Integer - hexadecimal string to integer converter by FMan
• ASCII Char to 4 bit Integer - Converts a alnum character to a value between 0 and 15 by Monte Carlos
• Integer to Hex String - integer to hexadecimal string converter by FMan
• String manipulation routines - string copying and printing routines by FMan
• Convert PETSCII/ASCII to screencodes by Mace/Secure

• Joystick Input Handling - general info and examples by tfg
• Fast Joystick Handling - By JAS
• Both Joysticks Handling plus proper keyboard scan - by Erhan
• C= 1351 Standard Mouse Routine - Converted to KickAssembler by TWW
• Multi-Adapter Support by Sokrates

• Midi on the C64 - Collection of C64 related MIDI info.

• X-Modem File Transfer Protocol - for 6551 serial port (NOT in a native C64), by Daryl Rictor - taken from www.6502.org
• Simple BASIC X-Modem Receive - A short type-in program to bootstrap transfer programs, using KERNAL RS232 routines. By White Flame.

The sourcecode for C*Base (BBS software) also contains a number of sources of transfer protocols, such as Punter and others. It is maintained by Tao/Triad and you can find it here.