Apple II Assembly Lines - redo project going on

[cappy2112]

For those of you who liked Assembly Lines from back in the day,
there is a project going on to republish the original Assembly Lines - with the addition of new material.

Quote:

Open Apple #40 (October 2014) : Chris Torrence, Printers, Celebrating Lode Runner
By: Mike Maginnis
This month on Open Apple, we talk to Chris Torrence, the new Roger Wagner Volunteer Archivist on behalf of Softalk magazine. Chris is a lifelong Apple II fan, and has recently undertaken the valuable effort of producing a book containing all of Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines columns. This will include all of the articles included in Roger’s original book (Assembly Lines: The Book) as well as columns never before available in book form. He’s not just republishing the articles, he’s annotating, footnoting, and expanding on them as needed. It’s a terrific service for the community. We’ll dig into that, as well as Chris’ start in computing, and how he got to where he is today. We manage to get through an entire show without taking a cheap shot at Commodore, so you won’t want to miss this. Wait- no we don’t.

http://a2central.com/author/mmaginnis/

Can't wait for this book to be published.

[BigEd]

Not only is it now published, it's available for free too - legitimately - see here (pdf) and for more info, here. It's 458 pages of the Assembly lines columns, from introductory to advanced and with reference sections.

There are a handful of Apple Disk images too, presumably with the sources and with the Merlin assembler.

Quote:

Now, for the first time, all thirty-three articles are available in one complete volume. This edition also contains all of the appendices from the original book as well as new appendices on the 65C02, zero-page memory usage, and a beginner’s guide to using the Merlin Assembler. The book is designed for students of all ages: the nostalgic programmer enjoying the retro revolution, the newcomer interested in learning low-level assembly coding, or the embedded systems developer using the latest 65C02 chips from Western Design Center.