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VIPER volume 1

All scans of the VIPER newsletter in this repository are provided for noncommercial use. Scans of volumes 1-2 have been posted with the permission of Rick Simpson. Scans of volumes 3-6 have been posted with the permission of Ray Sills.

Issue 1 - June 1978

  • Editorial
  • Vipworld: A History of the VIP
  • Focus: Video Display Tips
  • Memory for your VIP
  • Tape Read/Write Routines
  • Low Current Relay for Switching Applications
  • Getting Started with CHIP-8
  • Programming in CHIP-8

Issue 2 - August 1978

  • Editorial
  • Undocumented Functions
    Peter Morrison
  • New from RCA
  • Don Stein’s Text Editor - Part 1
  • CHIP-8 Interpreter
    Gooitzen S. van der Wal
  • An Analysis of CHIP-8
    John W. Wentworth

Issue 3 - September 1978

  • Editorial
  • CHIP-8I: A Modification to Provide I/O for the VIP
    Rick Simpson
  • Modifying a Pixie-verter
  • Two-byte Hex Display: A CHIP-8 Splinter
  • Two-byte CHIP-8 Display
    A. Modla & J. Winsor
  • Analysis of the VIP Operating System
    John W. Wentworth

Issue 4 - October 1978

  • Editorial
  • VIP-to-VIP Communication
  • Don Stein’s Editor - Part 2
  • Non-video Operating System
    Joseph Czajkowski
  • VIP Breakpoint & Register Display Program
    W.A. Barrett
  • Sam Hersh’s Editor

Issue 5 - November 1978

  • Editorial
  • Don Stein’s Editor - Part 3
  • AM9131 vs. AM91L31 RAM
  • Preview of RCA’s Game Manual
  • Draw
    Anders McCarthy
  • Life
    Brian Astle
  • Corrections for CHIP-8I
    Rick Simpson
  • Joysticks for the VIP
    Bob Thompson & John Rudy
  • Reprint: Breakpoint & Register Display (listing)
  • Direct SWTP PR40 Printer Interface
    Joe Weisbecker
  • Centronics P1 Interface
    Rick Simpson
  • 64-byte Checksum Program
    John W. Wentworth
  • VIP Register Display Program

Issue 6 - January 1979

  • Editorial
  • Six VIP Games
    Carmelo Cortez
  • Cheap Graphic Computer: Convert the Studio II
  • Software Library: Baseball
  • Help for VIPpers: The RCA User Guide
  • Motor Control for the VIP
    Steven Medwin
  • Corrections to Published Programs
    Steven Medwin
  • Corrections to Published Programs
  • Mastermind
    Robert Lindley
  • VIP Music
    Carmelo Cortez

Issue 7 - February 1979

  • Editorial
  • Studio II Conversion - Part 1
  • Double Buffer Speedup Hardware for 64 x 128 Graphic
    Ben Hutchinson
  • CHIP-10 Interpreter
    Ben Hutchinson
  • CHIP-8 on the ELF?
    Bobby Lewis
  • Bootstrap Loader for ELF II Cassettes
    Dave Friedman
  • Reprint: Mastermind

Issue 8 - March 1979

  • Editorial
  • Studio II Conversion - Part 2
  • CHIP-8 on the ELF II - Part 1
    Bobby Lewis
  • Graphic Lunar Lander
    Udo Pernisz
  • Double Buffer Speedup Hardware - Part 2

Issue 9 - April 1979

  • Editorial
  • Reverse Video Drawing
    Udo Pernisz
  • VIP Game Improvements
    Phil Sumner
  • Long Branch in Machine Language with Video On Tom Swan
  • Lunar Lander Corrections
  • Relocate a Program in the Hersh Editor
    Udo Pernisz
  • Corrections to the VIP User Guide

Issue 10 - May 1979

  • Editorial
  • Elf II Mods: I Like It!
    Neil Wiegand
  • Modifications to the Hersh Editor
    Norm Elliott
  • Subroutine Handling Schemes
    M.L. Dey
  • Saving & Restoring CHIP-8 Variables
    John Bennett
  • Kaleidoscope
    Phil Sumner
  • Book review of “Programs for the COSMAC ELF” Rick Simpson
  • Another Hi-res Graphic Method
    C. McCarthy
  • Book review of “CMOS Databook”
    Rick Simpson
  • Corrections to Lunar Lander
    Udo Pernisz
  • New from RCA
  • Simple Music Program
    Udo Pernisz