Apple machine language
by Don Inman · first published 1981
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I have seen the topic a bit late, but nevertheless: I have learned 6502 assembler (and assembler) in general with "6502 assembly language programming by Lance A. Leventhal" (1979) [1] and "Apple Machine Language by Don Inman & Kurt Inman" (1981) [2] For the 'internals' of the machine, I had "What's Where in the Apple: A Complete Guide to the Apple Computer by William F. Luebbert" (1985) amazon:[3] [1] https://archive.org/details/6502-assembly-language-programmi...…
on “Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II” ↗…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX has a quite deep corpus and what looks to be a good introduction: https://www.mmix.cs.hm.edu/getstarted.html (and I say that as a person who owns a much battered copy of Inman & Inman's _Apple Machine Language_)
on “I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language” ↗…robotics program, and I mowed grass summers and eventually bought a Commodore Vic-20 and later a TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 (in retrospect, should have waited and gotten the Model 100). Got Inman's book on Apple Machine Language, and a couple of other programming books, and lots of magazines (including one which had the ad "We See Farther" ad: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_11970... ) and typed in lots…
on “Breaking computers taught me to build them” ↗…recognition unit), calling it CTC-1 (Computerized Trash Can mark 1) --- an Apple ][ was selected over the other options (a TRS-80 Model III and an Atari 800 were the other possibilities). Bought a copy of _Apple Machine Language_ by Don and Kurt Inman, and did BASIC programming (having previously started w/ whatever BASIC was on the HP 3000 at the local college where a gifted and talented summer program allowed access. Then,…
on “Apple at 50” ↗What did you use for programming games? I wrote games for the Apple ][ in basic and created some with The Arcade Machine, but my Apple Machine Language book was largely unread, due to my impatience. Someone at the time that did have the patience was Jordan M., who wrote Karateka[1], which I thought was pronounced “kah-RAH-tic-a” but is “CARE-ah-TAKE-ah”[2],…
on “The making of Dark Castle (2018)” ↗