Dick Smiths Sorcerer Software Manual

[ChickenMan]

Thanks to kimjohn for making this manual available for scanning.  Scanned at 400dpi and converted to a pdf as usual. A4 in size and 92 pages long. It sold for $14.95 back in the early 80's, see price sticker on inside of back cover.

This is basically the same document produced by Exidy but with a Dick Smith cover and a couple of pages left blank, these being the 2nd page and inside the back cover. As quoted at the bottom of the Table of Contents page -

Reprinted in 1980 for Dick Smith Electronics, Sydney, Australia by permission of the
copyright holder, Exidy Incorporated of Sunnyvale, California USA.

The Table of Contents is -

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PREFACE ............................................... 3

INTRODUCTION TO THE Z80 MICROCOMPUTER.................. 4
Introduction to the Z80................................ 5
Hex, Binary, and Decimal............................... 5
Bits, Bytes, Addresses and “K”......................... 5
RAM versus ROM......................................... 6
Static versus Dynamic.................................. 6
Z80 Architecture....................................... 6

EXIDY SORCERER COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE................... 7
Exidy Devices and Ports................................ 8
Exidy Serial Port...................................... 8
Exidy Parallel Port.................................... 8
Cassette Tape File Format.............................. 9
Tips on Loading and Saving Files on Tape............... 9
Cassette Tape Error Checking........................... 9
Programmable Graphics Character Set....................10
Exidy Keyboard Architecture............................11
Performing Keyboard Input..............................12
Cursor Positioning.....................................12

EXIDY STANDARD BASIC...................................14
BASIC Floating Point Format............................15
BASIC Control Area.....................................16
Format of BASIC String Variables and Arrays............17
Format of BASIC Program Statements.....................17
Format of BASIC Floating Point Variables and Arrays....17
BASIC to Z80 Assembly Language Interface...............18

EXIDY POWER-ON MONITOR.................................19
Monitor Workarea.......................................20
Exidy Monitor Memory Map...............................20
Monitor Subroutines....................................22

MONITOR LISTINGS.......................................23

SUMMARY................................................64

The SUMMARY on page 64 doesn't exist nor is it in the original Exidy printed version of the manual. The MONITOR LISTING (written in Z80 assembler) takes up most of the manual being 64 pages long and goes form page 23 to the end of the manual with these pages not numbered. The Monitor is Ver 1.0 and developed by John K Borders Jr. dated 7/26/78 (or 26/7/78 for us Aussies and the rest of the world).

So in the Vintage Repository in the Exidy_Sorcerer/Manuals folder we placed

dse_sorcerer_software_manual.pdf