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Retro Programming Books

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I’m not really a collector, but if there’s one thing I could be accused of collecting then it’s cool programming books. I don’t have many retro ones though, so it was with much joy I found this site full of cool old programming books (mostly for the Atari though). Check out Basic Computer Games and the Bowling game. Puts the Wii to shame it does.

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4 Responses to “Retro Programming Books”

  1. Scott Laird Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 2:41 am

    Hey, I had that one. When it was new.

  2. Ryan Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 7:53 am

    Hey Pete remember when you wrote the program for the old Tennis Game which used to be on the Atari on that old crusty labtop you used to have ?

  3. John B Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 12:08 pm

    I checked that book out of my local public library at least 100 times during elementary school. I’m going to have fun going through all the old code. :) Thanks!

  4. sole Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 6:11 pm

    Very cool, Peter!
    I remember owning a couple of books of that style (although they were for Amstrad). What is better is that I had the translated version (in that time, I hardly understood “hello” in english), and sometimes they went so far as even translating the code itself.
    Which made very interesting to type the programs, since I had to work out which was the appropiate instruction for my interpreter - which was an english one!
    A bit crazy, isn’t it? :-)

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