Assembly Lines: The Complete Book is now available! The book contains all 33 of Roger Wagner's articles from Softalk magazine, as well as appendices on the 6502 instruction set, zero-page memory usage, and a beginner's guide to using the Merlin Assembler. The book is currently available for 40% off on Lulu.com, and will be available at Amazon in a few weeks. Note: Roger Wagner has released the book under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, and I'm currently working on the eBook version.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-wagner/assembly-lines-the-complete-book/hardcover/product-21959093.html



Brief Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1. Apple’s Architecture
2. The Monitor
3. Assemblers
4. Loops and Counters
5. Loops, Branches, COUT, and Paddles
6. I/O Using Monitor and Keyboards
7. Addressing Modes
8. Sound Generation
9. The Stack
10. Addition and Subtraction
11. DOS and Disk Access
12. Shift Operators and Logical Operators
13. I/O Routines
14. Reading and Writing Files on Disk
15. Special Programming Techniques
16. Passing Data from Applesoft BASIC
17. More Applesoft Data Passing
18. Applesoft Hi-Res Graphics
19. Calling Hi-Res Graphics Routines
20. Structure of the Hi-Res Display Screen
21. Hi-Res Plotting in Assembly
22. Even Better Hi-Res Plotting
23. Hi-Res Graphics SCRN Function
24. The Collision Counter, DRAW, XDRAW
25. Explosions and Special Effects
26. Passing Floating-Point Data
27. Floating-Point Math Routines
28. The BCD, or Binary Coded Decimal
29. Intercepting Output
30. Intercepting Input
31. Hi-Res Character Generator
32. Hi-Res Character Editor
33. The 65C02
Appendix A: Contest
Appendix B: Assembly Commands
Appendix C: 6502 Instruction Set
Appendix D: Monitor Subroutines
Appendix E: ASCII and Screen Charts
Appendix F: Zero-Page Memory Usage
Appendix G: Beginner’s Guide to Merlin
List of Programs
Directory Listing for Program Disks
Index
Quick Reference

Just a quick followup: Assembly Lines: The Complete Book is now also available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Lines-Co ... 312089407/

Cheers,
Chris

I have just received my copy of the book; bought it right after the announcement was made that it was available from Amazon. A quick review certainly brings back a lot of good memories regarding my first computer: the Apple ][+. Will have to set aside some time to read it more thoroughly over the next few weeks.

It arrived this morning by USPS. Certainly surprised my wife, who asked "Since when does mailman deliver on Sundays?"

Perhaps the USPS is finally pulling its head out of the hole in the ground its been in for the past 20-30 years. It may be on its way to actual relevance rather than bankruptcy.

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Michael A.

Just FYI, you can also download a PDF of the book along with disk images at:
https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner
Enjoy!
-Chris
p.s. neither Roger nor I are making any profit off of this

Bravo!

Thank you for doing this!

The actual printed copy is on my Amazon wish list. Hopefully, with our anniversary coming up soon, my wife will take the hint.

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Cat; the other white meat.