Understanding the Apple IIe
by James Fielding Sather · first published 1985
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…Programming Language by Jonathan Rees is the kind of book that cleanses your soul. Donald Knuth's The Stanford Graphbase contains literate programs for several elegant graph algorithms. Jim Sather's Understanding the Apple IIe is a terrific description of a computer from the bottom up, and shows you how deep knowledge of the hardware enables you to write software that breaks all the rules (viz. the recent demo that gets 1024…
on “My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One” ↗For Apple-II specific info, consider The Assembly Lines book -- https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner Understanding the Apple IIe -- https://archive.org/details/understandingapp0000sath Understanding the Apple II -- https://archive.org/details/understanding_the_apple_ii
on “Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II” ↗As mentioned in the link above, Assembly Lines is still in print as a paper book (maybe it's print on demand, but it's a hardcover). I just noticed that Understanding the Apple IIe also got a re-issue from Call-A.P.P.L.E. in 2024 (print edition from Lulu) - https://www.callapple.org/books-3/understanding-the-apple-ii... .
on “Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II” ↗