This book is intended to show you how to develop serious applications programs for use on your Amstrad CPC 464 or 664. David Lawrence emphasises throughout the importance of good program planning and design, and illustrates the principal points with a host of examples.

The book begins with a look at the advantages of modular programming, which makes subsequent checking and debugging on your routines much easier. There follow chapters of debugging, proper methods of inputting information, string handling techniques, error trapping, storage and retrieval, data structures, sorting and searching.

At each stage there are handy hints and tips which suggest new ways of tackling problems - how to save greater volumes of data in your Amstrad's memory, or how to sort a long list of items efficiently. These make the book a handy ready reference to have available whenever you are tackling a new and potentially difficult program.

Publisher: Sunshine Books
Author: David Lawrence

Ian Waugh has written 'Making Music on the Amstrad CPC 464 and 664' for the many owners of these micros who would like to take advantage of their sophisticated sound facilities, to write musical programs.

Ian Waugh is a professional musician and keen micro enthusiast, who shows you how you can make the Amstrad play music of all kinds, including effects like vibrato, echo, trills, polyphonic music and even sound effects like seagulls and ricochets. Did you know, for example, that you can turn your Amstrad into a drum synthesiser or rhythm unit using a BASIC program?

Publisher: Sunshine Books
Author: Ian Waugh

Publisher: Sunshine Books
Author: Jeff Naylor and Diane Rogers