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I wish I still had my copies of The Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide and The Commodore 64 Inner Space Anthology (published by The Transactor magazine).
by cgh 9y ago
I wish I still had my copies of The Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide and The Commodore 64 Inner Space Anthology (published by The Transactor magazine). Such incredible resources. I taught myself assembly when I was twelve or thirteen years old, although I sort of sucked at it because I grew up in a tiny, isolated northern town and couldn't get any of my questions answered. In fact, I am pretty certain I was the only person within a 500 km radius with any command of 6510 assembly.
Getting that bare-metal knowledge of that machine served me pretty well. I'm not sure if there's an equivalent path to programmer competency today.
- adam12 9y agoThis reference? https://archive.org/details/Commodore_64_Programmers_Reference_Guide_1983_Commodore https://archive.org/details/Commodore_64_Programmers_Referen...
- cgh 9y agoYeah, that's the one. I'm not normally one for nostalgia or memorabilia, but I spent a LOT of my youth poring over that thing. I think it eventually got tattered and my mom chucked it when I left for university.
- adam12 9y agoI’ve been really nostalgic lately. Just want my old breadin 64. :(
- macjohnmcc 9y agoI still have my original C64 Programmers Reference manual. I have also collected a few older programming books from the era like including book 1571 Internals.
- simmons 9y agoDitto, mostly! There was one page of the Programmer's Reference Guide that had a grid showing the hex opcodes for each instruction and addressing mode, and after many adventures in hand-assembling code, this ended up being the most worn-out page in mine. :)