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Date: 24 August 88, 15:51:42 EST
From: Steve King                                     HEINEKEN at MTUS5
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> what is  a good book, or book/disk combo for learning 6502 assembly?
> ---Mark Thacker

I've found that "Programming the Apple II in Assembly Language" by Rodnay
Zaks (Sybex, 1985) is an *excellent* Apple II assembly language guide.
It contains a LARGE reference section (at least one page per instruction),
concise descriptions of all the addressing modes, and includes the 65C02
instructions.  It also has more basic non-reference material, like basic
programming techniques and data structures.  Oh, yes, I/O and graphics
from assembler are covered as well.  I ran through the book (taking all the
self-tests and such) at the same time I was taking my first assembly
language classes here at Tech (8085 and Sperry 1100/80 at the same time,
and I just *had* to throw 6502 on top of it... :-) and I found Zaks' book
to be at least as good as my instructors on the basics.  The cost is
about $20 for a book the size of a mid-sized text book.

                                             --Steve King
                                               HEINEKEN @ MTUS5.bitnet