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From: dr@ski.UUCP (David Robins)
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Subject: Re: wanted: 6502 assembly book recommendations
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> Can someone recommend a 6502 Assembly book?
> I would like to get a good reference book before
> fiddling with assembly code.
> 
> thanks,
> P. Kern
> 	..!{ihnp4,cbosgd}!utcs!pkern

When I started learning (teaching myself) assembly language last year,
I was mystified, because I brought the highly recommended ASSEMBLY
LINES: THE BOOK, by Roger Wagner.  This book teaches in sections which
are swallowable. I understood the op-codes, and the examples, but I
still didn't know how to start and write a useful program for myself.
I was looking for a book the shows HOW to do it.

I bought about 7 books, which seems useful when I broused through them
at the bookstore.  The ones I thing ARE useful are:

	ASSEMBLY LINES: The Book 
	by Roger Wagner

	Programming the Apple ][ in Assembly Language
	by Rodney Zaks
	(I agree with the posting about the mediocre writing style,
	but there were still some useful things in this book.)

	6502 Software Design
	by Leo Scanlon (Howard Sams & Co.)

	6502 Assembly Language Subroutines
	by Lance Leventhal
	(A compendium of routines for arithmetic, arrays, I/O,
	interrupts, etc.  Useful once the basics are learned.)

	Assembly Cookbook for the Apple ][|//e
	by Don Lancaster (Howard Sams & Co.)
	(I don't like the repetitive, jargony style Lancaster uses in
	this book.  I found myself very annoyed trying to get through
	it and pick out the relevant facts.  However, if you can put
	up with it, he shows a nice, organized way to set-up a
	top-down, structured programming style.  It does NOT teach the
	op-codes and their uses.)

	____________________________________________________________________

	I have ordered another book that I have heard is very useful.
	This is called:

		Now That You Know Assembly Language, What Can You Do
		With It
		by Jules Gilder.
		(It was reviewed recently in Apple Assembly Line, which
		is written by Bob Sander-Cederlof.)

P.S.:  For the slightly-higher-than-rank-beginner, and up,
programmers, I would highly recommend Apple Assembly Line.  This
monthly newsletter is intended for support of the S-C Assembler, but is
available to anyone from S-C Software Corporation, P.O. Box 280300,
Dallas, Texas, 75228, for $18/year in the US, higher elsewhere.  
-- 
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David Robins, M.D. 
Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences
2232 Webster St; San Francisco CA 94115
415/561-1705
			{ihnp4,qantel,dual}!ptsfa!ski!dr

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