Assembly Lines
by Roger Wagner · first published 1982
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
A beginner-friendly introduction to 6502 assembly language for kids and new programmers, written for the Apple II. It is a good starting point for learning Apple II assembly.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
This volume includes the first fifteen installments of "Everyone's Guide to Assembly Language," by Roger Wagner, originally published in Softalk magazine. Expanded, corrected, indexed, and with an introduction by the author, Assembly Lines: the Book is better than the original. In clear, concise language, Roger Wagner makes the basics of assembly language palatable to the experienced and novice programmer alike.
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…Unfortunately, I can never find the big compendium they produced, vaguely recalled as a brown legal sized paperback with their logo on the front and chock full of everything. This is available and good tho: Assembly Lines "... designed for students of all ages: the nostalgic programmer enjoying the retro revolution, the newcomer interested in learning low-level assembly coding, or the embedded systems developer using…
on “My New Old Apple IIe Computer” ↗Becky recommends Assembly Lines, by Roger Wagner then writing a game for an apple ii emulator. Others have done similar projects with chip-8, which I think is even simpler.
on “Porting Doom to the 3D0 Console” ↗Book recommended by Becky: Assembly Lines by Roger Wagner https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner Damned, she went through a lot!
on “Porting Doom to the 3D0 Console” ↗…heart when some youngster comes in and knocks it out of the park. Just reminds me so much of being a kid and dreaming about one day being a “real” programmer. Skipping school and reading Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines - the Complete Book, and hoping some day I’d get my hands on a real computer. Sounds silly, now that we all have supercomputers in our pockets. But I still treasure the memories.
on “The Joy of Programming” ↗…in A and JSR $F411. It'll leave the base address of the scanline in $36 and $37. Which you can stick in your table. As in other comments, if you are specifically interested in the Apple II line, the Assembly Lines books by Roger Wagner is fantastic.
on “Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II” ↗