A computer club scanned these books in. I don't know if they got permission or not.

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books ... _65816.pdf

Commodore Books:

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm

1981 Component Data Catalog from MOS

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books ... g_1981.pdf

I recall that book when it was in print. My opinion of it is that it is inferior to what can be downloaded from WDC's website.

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What a treasure trove! I'm not sure if the book of Impossible Routines would be very useful or entirely useless. Or, just maybe, not an accurate title.

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm

There's no need for url tags, as I think the forum auto-links URL-like entities anyway. Also, not using the proper closing tag will malform the URL, as happened in the original message.

The above URL is the correct URL for convenient clicking.

Unfortunately, the page does not come up for me. The connection times out. Strangely, accessing http://www.bombjack.org works just fine.

I fixed the URL and it came up.

It's definitely not coming up for me. He must have Comcast users firewalled off. (At least, Comcast users from the Bay Area.)

That being said, I agree with BDD that the book isn't the best possible introduction to programming as such; I'd say that it should be backed up with other theoretical materials (e.g., Wirth's books on data structures and algorithms) as well.

It does serve a useful purpose though: since Sybex used the same cookie-cutter layout for all their "Programming the Waffle-Iron" series of books (for any Waffle-Iron you care to think of), it was a primordial example of a Rosetta stone, allowing folks to compare different processor architectures.

For example, I remember a clip in the "Programming the 6502" book which compared a block I/O operation on the Z-80 versus the 6502. The Z-80 snowed the 6502 big-time because of its OTIR instruction. But when it came to other things, the 6502 proved faster. The comparison was pretty well unbiased, and I haven't seen such honesty in technical books before or since.

The pages came up for me, but it took a looooooooong time.


I couldn't find that one. Where is it?

A little more than halfway down the page.
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books ... he_C64.pdf
But it's not really worth downloading, very basic stuff.