Tales of the Marvelous Machine
https://archive.org/details/Tales_of_The_Marvelous_Machine/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #scienceFiction

Looks like most of the Creative Computing SF stories. Tended towards slightly existential horror.

I love that it has an index by length in words.

Or other unfortunate covers, maybe don't put "Surfin" coming out of a guy's butt.

https://archive.org/details/first-steps-amiga-surfin-jeacle-karl
#retrocomputing #amiga

You should understand, the stories about Atari's sex & drugs culture were, if anything, understated. And that carried over to the users.

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-how-to-program-your-atari-in-6502-language

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-designs-from-your-mind-with-atari-graphics

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-forth-on-the-atari-learning-by-using

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-dr-wackos-guide-to-creating-arcade-games

The best industrial metal album of 1985, PRIMO FÜZETEK's HARDVER.

https://archive.org/details/Primo_Fuzetek_Hardver_1985_COSY_Microkey_HU/mode/2up

The cover here is great, but giving false advertising. No Apple ][ game looked that good, were not in cabinets (that's Atari.), and pretty women in flimsy dresses were not going to be enthralled by your space videogame.

https://archive.org/details/Apple_Graphics_Arcade_Game_Design

Also storybooks with type-ins that don't do much.
https://archive.org/details/The_Science_Fiction_Computer_Storybook
https://archive.org/details/The_Mystery_and_Adventure_Computer_Storybook

Apple ][ Redbook
https://archive.org/details/redbook/mode/2up

Beagle Bros Big Tip Book
https://archive.org/details/Beagle_Bros-The_Big_Tip_Book_OCR/
#retrocomputing #appleii

In case you need to get elbow-deep in the guts of Apple ][ programming.

I was gonna skip all the old Mac books, but: Berkeley Breathed illustrated this.

Also like the last one, this guy gonna fuck his computer, and dog wants not to be there.

https://archive.org/details/mac_The_Macintosh_Companion_1991/
#retrocomputing #mac

Ugh now a glut of "funny" Mac books. All "how to set your wallpaper", "run this RADICAL WOW CRAZY init mod!", buncha shit. No programming. I hated then that Mac didn't ship with any dev tools. Apple got better about that, with Hypercard, then much worse, but it's still a giant cliff face learning curve from the few scripting interpreters still installed, to fucking Xcode fuck Swift.

https://archive.org/details/mac_VooDoo_Mac_1994_7.5/

https://archive.org/details/mac_Totally_Rad_Mac_Programs_2nd_Edition_1994/

https://archive.org/details/mac_This_Mac_is_MINE_1992/mode/2up

Programming Tricks & Skills
Professional tips and hints for better program writing
https://archive.org/details/programming-tricks-and-skills/mode/1up
#retrocomputing #basic

I despise the "OS" & company, but respect the man.
https://archive.org/details/The_Peter_Norton_Programmers_Guide_IBM-PC/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #hahaIBMisRetroNow #ohshit #ibmpc

Just as old:
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History
https://archive.org/details/Bits_Of_History_Glenn_Krasner/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #smalltalk

Slightly less shitty scan of the cover below.

The cover is really just awful. Like, I think less of Smalltalk (which I have professionally programmed in) because of this cover. The more I look the worse it gets.

GFA, made basically solo by Frank, went with all black & text, and it still looks awesome. This, made by a $1B+ corporation, tried to do graphics but couldn't hire a skilled chimp.

Or for old-timey BASIC, you can still have style:
https://archive.org/details/The_Little_Book_Of_BASIC_Style_by_John_Nevison/
#retrocomputing #basic

Oh, this is super useful. I had this book, but samizdat photocopies in a binder. Getting any non-German docs for GFA was a nightmare back then.

Also gives me a real Traveller vibe.

https://archive.org/details/GFA_BASIC_Book/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #atari #basic

The best of the best computer magazine of all time:
https://archive.org/search?query=%22best+of+creative+computing%22&sort=title
#programming #retrocomputing #basic

If you're gonna read anything I link to, *read these*. Type in some programs with a BASIC like
http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/

Exact 676 solder points later the #SC113 backplane as expansion for the #SC126 is fully populated. Next project is the small IO Card for another possible blinkenlight. But I'm afraid I don't have all the ics for it in the moment.
#RetroComputing #ZilogZ180