1983's wonderful "Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners"

http://gomsx.net/hansotten/msxdocs/mach ... inners.pdf

Via:

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/16/1983s- ... ducti.html

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Does anyone else have problems downloading the .pdf? Multiple efforts on two different computers here yield nothing viewable. Maybe it's just that too many people are trying to download it, since the page linking to it was just posted.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

I got it down onto a tablet with no issue, shortly after Chuck posted.

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Glad to see this book mentioned everywhere, it was even mentioned on the WDC Facebook pages.

So there was quite a surge in downloads, and the server is a private one hosted by a friend of mine.

I will copy this book to my 6502 sbc pages on retro.hansotten.nl too.

Hans

First link doesn't work...Can someone upload the pdf/ebook here or just the text

Its here now

http://msx.hansotten.com/uploads/msxdoc ... inners.pdf

Oh, that book....I remember that back at school in the mid 80's....haven't seen that in ages

Thing is it had a lot of competition from computer specific (i.e. atari/commodore/acorn, Amstrad/sinclair/msx) 6502/z80 books and was a bit thin on the ground content wise (compared to general and computer specific 6502/z80 books)

I am slowly collecting ALL those 80s Usborne books. That's one of the ones I am missing. I have 15 of them so far, 8 more on the way and 4 more to find. There are Basic ones as well as experiments and robotics ones and general computer things. Every time I think I have all of them I find another I didn't know about. Generally I am paying about a quid or two (then 6 quid shipping to NZ damn it) for most but some, like the Machine code one, are more expensive. The most expensive is the "How to make computer model controllers" one which seems very hard to find.

My plan is to review them all on my site and then enter the programs/games into my little Orwell machine once I finish it! That's basically it's main purpose.

Simon

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My 6502 related blog: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/category/6502-computer

I sought Usborne's Haunted House BASIC listing and I've just discovered that all of Usborne's 1980's computer books are free to download with very acceptable terms (no registration, personal use only, no re-posting). Unfortunately, they are currently hosted by Google. If the download function is flaky, try printing.

Usborne's computer books include the famous Machine Code for Beginners which takes a very Little Man Computer approach to programming complete with little cartoon androids and pigeon holes. I presume that drogon would approve, given drogon's work with LMC.

Unfortunately, half of the book has extraneous material. Which half depends upon your inclinations.

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Modules | Processors | Boards | Boxes | Beep, Beep! I'm a sheep!

I keep meaning to write an LMC (and CESIL) for my Ruby system - but this time in BCPL... One day!

-Gordon

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See my Ruby 6502 and 65816 SBC projects here: https://projects.drogon.net/ruby/