tugboat450 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 What is the best commodore 64 programming book for beginners? I just got one today and the books I have are too complicated for me. So which book explains it the best? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixstringmonk Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 What is the best commodore 64 programming book for beginners? I just got one today and the books I have are too complicated for me. So which book explains it the best?Thanks! I don't know what book is considered the "best", but this one assumes no programing knowledge whatsoever: The Elementary Commodore 64 William B. Sanders Datamost, inc. ISBN 088190001X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 What is the best commodore 64 programming book for beginners? I just got one today and the books I have are too complicated for me. So which book explains it the best? The ones that always get mentioned are Jim Butterfield "Learning Machine Code Programming on the Commodore 64 (and other Commodore computers)" and "Programming the Commodore 64" Raeto Colin West; Americans more often than not list the former, Europeans the latter. Whilst it's nowhere near as easy to actually learn from, i'd recommend having a look at the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 most of the books TMR mentioned are oavailable on the internet, project 64 or whatever it was called and the jim butterfield book is available as part of a series of ML tutrials packed into a 11/12 meg file availalbe from CDSB/or was it CSDB unfortunately i can't recall the exactly name of either website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDayRlz Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 What is the best commodore 64 programming book for beginners? I just got one today and the books I have are too complicated for me. So which book explains it the best?Thanks! Well any 6502 book will do. You just have to know where all the "Usefull" things are in RAM, Sound Genorator, Graphics Mode Selector, Screen Stat Pointer, Etc. And alot of people can tell you where those are. I'd go with a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 tho, Better Micro, And I can help you with that. Here's an link to a decent emulator. http://members.cox.net/javacoco/ Aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+grafixbmp Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) The best book I've got is an original C= 64 programer's reference guide. Published by Commodore Business Machines and Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. Copyright 1982 First edition seventh printing-1983 If it would be kosher, I would scan the whole thing over time and do a PDF some day. I also still got the schemtic foldout from the back of the book... somewhere Edited July 27, 2009 by grafixbmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 if you go on the atari v commodore thread on the atari 8bit section...in one of the last few pages i stuck up a weblink that contains lots of old commodore programming books from the pet to the c128 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garak Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 The best book I've got is an original C= 64 programer's reference guide. Published by Commodore Business Machines and Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. Copyright 1982 First edition seventh printing-1983 If it would be kosher, I would scan the whole thing over time and do a PDF some day. I also still got the schemtic foldout from the back of the book... somewhere To save you time I thought I'd mention that the C64 Programmers Reference Guide is already on the internet in various forms in: text file, html, and scanned to PDF formats. Garak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popmilo Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Codebase64 has all that you need: http://codebase64.org/doku.php books, magazines (C= Hacking you must read... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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