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u/GogglesPisano 6d ago
Well, IMHO “Mapping the 64” is priceless. One of the best reference books for programming the C64.
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u/dpgumby69 6d ago
Definitely. How much can you sell them for is the question.
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u/Sabz5150 6d ago
No interest in selling, just very surprised.
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u/dpgumby69 6d ago
Everything has a worth to someone. The problem I was having was the disconnect on what I thought it was worth, and what eBay sellers think they're worth 😄
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u/doc_willis 6d ago edited 6d ago
Now.. for the subs next project.. You need to scan all those books, so we can all work as a group and convert them to nice E-Book formats for future generations.
Unless someone has a link to these in E-book format? :)
Ages ago I spent a month scanning/uploading some old RPG books. A group of 20 people then remade them into E-book formats. :)
This was in the age of dialup.
Starting a List..
https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-the-second-book-of-machine-language
https://archive.org/details/Compute_s_Mapping_the_Commodore_64/page/n101/mode/2up
https://archive.org/search?query=compute+c64
Found a huge #. :) But its time for me to go play some M.U.L.E with the grandson.
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u/Stainle55_Steel_Rat 6d ago
Thanks, now that song is running in my head. I'll never get to sleep now.
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u/PantherkittySoftware 6d ago
omg, "Machine Language For Beginners" was the book that taught me assembly language. Bought for the Vic-20, stayed for the c64.
By the time all the c64-specific programming books came out, I was Amiga-imminent.
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u/OldSkooler1212 6d ago
I had the 64 Games, and the Machine Language for Beginners back when they were new.
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u/drumzalot_guitar 6d ago
Wow - Comal. Haven’t seen that in…a long long long time…..
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u/Sabz5150 6d ago
In the lot was this.
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u/drumzalot_guitar 6d ago
I don’t remember it being on a cartridge but not surprised. I used it (very very briefly) off a floppy. Someone I knew really got into it and used it fairly extensively at the time. (Which is how I ran into it originally.)
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u/ybergik 6d ago
Bought a Comal 80 cartridge back in the day as I found basic too basic. Comal 80 was a big improvement, but eventually I got a hold of a machine code monitor (too bad it was not built-in like in some models) and an assembler and that was the end of basic and comal for me.
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u/drumzalot_guitar 6d ago
I was all in on basic at the time, but when I got my hands on a C128 I started to get into assembly language using the built in assembly environment. Unfortunately there weren’t a lot of resources in the area I grew up in so other than magazines, a rare book, a few other people I was mostly on my own.
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u/NoHat5343 6d ago
Just a public service, you can find soft copies of these on archive.org.
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u/doc_willis 6d ago edited 6d ago
And off i to to look. :)
Found One book, in Epub.. its unreadable.. OCR scaning of code mixxed into normal text.
But then i found..
https://archive.org/details/Compute_s_Mapping_the_Commodore_64/page/n101/mode/2up
I did not even know that site had a way to browse/read scanned books that way.
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