Assembly Lines: The Complete Book

Amazing book and accompanied by the editor’s videos on YouTube for more tinkering!

This book is fantastic. I've been a Commodore fan for years, but recently started collecting Apple II stuff. This book is comparable to Jum Butterfield's machine language book for the Commodore series. It's very well written, straight to the point, and covers the basics of interfacing with the system beyond just 6502 instructions. Graphics, Sound, etc, and even uses the construction of a simple pong game to teach the process. Great book, a must have for any 8 bit collector or programmer. Also the hard cover version is beautiful.. no dust jacket, but a nice printed cover (thank you, I hate dust jacket type covers, they always get torn).Well done Sir.

What can I say... It's really the best if you are into Assembly on A][. My only regret is that I'm so busy now I'll probably have this book sitting on my desk and taunting me until I have the time to enjoy it. I had to get it while I could and hardbound!

It is a riveting read

Great book for newbies interested into programming in the “old way”, so as for average high-level language programmers that want to improve machine’s low level knowledges.

This has been one of the most straight forward and immediately useful books I have purchased with regards to computer programming, either in general, or on a specific subset of programming topics.

Excelent!

(A disclaimer, though I don't think it's necessary: I was one of the proofreaders of this book...so if you find any errors in it, you know who to blame.)Back in the 1980s I worked in an Apple II lab in college. I was a fair demon of a programmer in BASIC, but a number of the people I worked with could program pretty well in assembler and their skills always intimidated me. I looked at a number of books about assembly programming and found them all to be very confusing and nigh-impenetrable. Time moved on and computing moved away from the program-it-yourself ethos...but I always regretted never having picked up assembler.My days of regret are now over, and I owe it to Assembly Lines: The Complete Book.Roger Wagner's writing style is friendly, humorous, and always encouraging. He walks you through every new concept, provides examples in BASIC, and keeps his assembler listings as short as possible so they're easy to type in and easy to comprehend. Programs build on past examples as you progress through the book, and Wagner's good-natured guidance always leads you surely forward. (I may have a few scars from the sections on Hi-Res Graphics, but that's due solely to the convolutions of the hardware and not to any shortfall of deftness in Mr. Wagner's explanations.)I think it's a testament to the clarity of Assembly Lines that I was able to learn assembly programming *while* proofreading it--even with my mind divided between two tasks, this book got me over a three-decade hump and allowed me to be the kind of coder I'd always hoped I might become. I'm still a neophyte when it comes to assembly--but between the entertaining, instructive text and the very helpful and copious appendices in this book, I have all of the tools I need. Moreover, I've got all of the confidence I need, as well.

Ya lo tenía en formato PDF, pero al precio que lo ví en Amazon no pude evitar comprarlo en versión física.Es una suerte que se sigan imprimiendo este tipo de libros tan concretos que seguramente muy poca gente comprará... un 10 por la calidad de la edición, el papel y por supuesto el contenido.