This book is intended for users and prospective users of 6502 based microcomputers who already have some machine code programming and wish to extend their knowledge to write and modify programs.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Alan Tully
Platform:

Finally! A guide to playing the most exciting and challenging adventure today, The Hobbit. This book is designed to provide assistance in three stages, each stage becoming progressively less difficult.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: David Elkan
Platform: Hobbit

Advanced Spectrum Machine Language

This book is a collection of ready-made machine language routines that show how to archieve spectacular effects on the Spectrum. Most of the routines are aimed at creating visual displays that are at the frontiers of Spectrum's capabilities. The routines include features that have never been published before, such as: Full Screen Horizon ! Lets you change the colour of the border and screen at any point, and move this horizon at will ! Interrupts Driven Sprite Animation ! Animate objects with perfectly flicker-free movement by pixels ! High Resolution Colour ! Create an area on the Spectrum with eight times the normal Spectrum's Colour Resolution! Create images over all of the screen area, including all regions of the border !

This book is for programmers with some experience in machine language programming. All the routines are listed in labelled assembly language and the techniques and principles involved are fully explained. Other routines included in this book are PRINT, PLOTTING, DRAWNING and KEYBOARD SCAN. The routines are all of professional quality and do no involve any calls to the ROM. This means that the speed of your machine language programs can be dramatically increased using these routines.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: David Webb
Platform: ZX Spectrum

The BBC micro has become a leader in home computers, and its ease of operation has made it the most popular educational computer in schools today. BASIC has become the standard language for programming this versatile micro. BBC BASIC for Beginners provides a comprehensive learning system for this complex computer language, and is essential for every owner wishing to develop their own programming skills.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: David Smith
Platform: BBC Micro

The ABC of BBC interfacing for the enthusiast or student. This book will enable you to add a whole new dimension to electronic projects by interfacing your BB micro with other equipment.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Don Thomasson
Platform: BBC Micro

Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class 001.64/24
Library of Congress QA76.8.B35

ID Numbers
Open Library OL17353000M
OCLC/WorldCat 12585248 

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Rudolf Smit
Platform: BBC Micro

Forewood by Scott Adams, a master of the text adventure, this title leads the reader through the various facets of adventure games, including the history of adventure games and a hall of fame.

Also has a clear explanation of programming techniques, including how to introduce objects, and all the other skills to produce an exciting text adventure.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Keith Campbell
Platform: ZX Spectrum

This book offers complete instruction in 7501 machine language - the 7501 CPU is part of the 6502 family and is at the heart of the Commodore 16. a full explanation of TEDMON is included, so you can start writing your own machine language programs straight away.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Peter Beresford
Platform: Commodore 16

Blurb from the back cover:

The best software games book ever written for your Commodore 64. These easy to enter program listings turn your Commodore 64 micro into an entire arcade of electronic fun and thrills. Experience action so fast and furious it will shatter all your concepts about computer game excitement.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Clifford & Mark Ramshaw
Platform: Commodore 64

ID Numbers
Open Library OL11665042M
ISBN 10 0861611780
ISBN 13 9780861611782
OCLC/WorldCat 12586220
Library Thing 4570698

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Phillip Williams
Platform: Commodore 64

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Peter Falconer
Platform: Commodore 64

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Bruce Bayley
Platform: Commodore 64

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Colin Carter
Platform: Dragon 32

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Rosetta McLeaod
Platform:

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: John Vander Reyden
Platform: Oric-1

The Amstrad CPC464 contains one of the most versatile sound generating chips that can be found in any of today's computers. This guide has been designed for you, the Amstrad user, to extract the maximum benefit from the extraordinary sound capabilities of the CPC464. With the Amstrad's very powerful BASIC, you won't even need to know about machine language to create music and sound effects to delight you. Beginning with the first principles of sound you will be shown, step-by-step, how to create melodies, rhythm and fantastic sound effects to liven up your own programs. Along with the aid of the many program examples you can master the Amstrad sound chip and tap your own creativity.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Ian Sinclair
Platform: Amstrad CPC 464

30 programs for the Sinclair ZX81. Each explained with programming hints and space saving techniques.

Publisher: Melbourne House

Platform: Sinclair ZX81

Give your Amstrad the power and speed of machine language without actually having to learn machine language programming

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Joe Pritchard
Platform: Amstrad CPC464

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Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Dr. Ian Logan
Platform: ZX81

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Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Dr. Ian Logan & Dr. Frank O'Hara
Platform: ZX81

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Rudolf Smit
Platform: ZX Spectrum

The Sinclair Spectrum has revolutionised the world of microcomputers with its ability to offer a very sophisticated colour computer at a price that would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.

Now Adrian Dickens explains exactly what is inside the Spectrum, and how it works.

Full circuit diagrams and a detailed explanation of each component make it easy to understand the hardware side of this remarkable microcomputer.

Many features not revealed in the Sinclair Manual are discussed here: how to adjust the colours for your own TV set, how to amplify the sound of the internal loudspeaker, and much more.

Practical hardware projects include how to connect a full size keyboard, connecting the Spectrum to the outside world, and how to build your own joysticks for use with the Spectrum.

The Spectrum Hardware Manual is a book that will be an essential companion to anyone wishing to discover how the Spectrum operates or wishing to expand its potential.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Adrian C. Dickens
Platform: Spectrum

If you are frustrated by the limitations of BASIC and want to write faster, more powerful, space-saving programs or subroutines, the Spectrum Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner is the book for you.

Even with no previous experience of computer languages, you will be able to discover the ease and power of the Spectrum's own language. Each chapter includes specific examples of machine language applications which can be demonstrated and used on your Spectrum as well as a self-test questionnaire.

At the end of the book, all this is brought together in an entire machine language program - from design right through to the complete listing of an existing, original arcade game.

Publisher: Melbourne House

Platform: ZX Spectrum

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Gianluca Carri
Platform: ZX Spectrum

"Now without any additional effort, you can overcome the limitations of BASIC and give your Spectrum real power-faster programs, more powerful graphic commands, realistic explosions, fast screen scrolling, great sounds and much more! This book will help you to develop programs of professional quality- not only will your programs look better, run faster, and be more spectacular- but you will also be able to develop them in a fraction of the time you would expect it to take. One of the most spectacular examples of extending the Spectrum is a routine that allows you to reproduce your voice and play it back from within your own programs! No knowledge of machine language is required, as all the routines have been fully written and can be directly entered into your Spectrum. The routines in this book will also allow you to renumber your BASIC programs (including all GOTOs and GOSUBs!), deletes lines, and trace BASIC programs by showing the line number of each line as it executes. David Webb also includes the most discussion of all the Spectrum's system variables yet published. If you are already familair with machine language, then this book will be an invaluable aid to writing your own programs- here are over 50 ready-made and debugged routines, with clear and detailed comment, that use the full power of the Spectrum Z80A and its special features. So whether you are a beginner Spectrum user or an experienced programmer, Supercharge your Spectrum is a book you cannot be without."

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: David Webb
Platform: ZX Spectrum

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Dr Ian Logan, Dr Frank O'Hara
Platform:

Dr. Ian Logan is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on Sinclair computers. In this book, he gives you a complete overview of the way the Spectrum operates, both for BASIC and machine language programming, including numerous demonstration programs. In Dr. Logan's word Understanding Your Spectrum has three main aims: to explain, in simple terms, how the Spectrum works; to teach Z80 machine code from the first principles; and to give details of monitor entry points, so that efficient programs can be written. A special section of the ROM operating system will give you insight into the Spectrum and provide you with information on how to use many of the routines present in the ROM in your own programming/ This book is a must if you are serious about programming the Spectrum.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Ian Logan
Platform: ZX Spectrum

The first part, chapters 1-4, discusses the Z80 microprocessor and its machine code instructions. The second part, chapters 5-7, deals with actual machine code programs. Chapter 5 containing programs that illustrate the different types of machine code instructions in the Z80 instruction set. Chapter 6 discusses the 8K monitor program and chapter 7 gives some suggestions on how to go about writing a machine code program.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Dr. Ian Logan
Platform: ZX81

Now you can understand all the mysteries of your VIC 20, without having to struggle through its complex user's guide.

VIC 20 Exposed gives an in-depth explanation of the entire VIC 20 system in a clear and easy to follow manner. With this book, every VIC 20 owner will be able to understand how this versatile home computer actually works.

Every function and programming variable is carefully explained, and with the aid of the many demonstration programs, this book will teach you how totake full advantage of all the VIC 20's impressive capabilities. You'll soon be achieving effects more spectacular than you believed possible from a standard VIC 20.

VIC 20 Exposed even contains a special section that gives an excellent insight into every aspect of the VIC 20's hardware operation.

Because this book is designed to take you through the VIC 20's entire operation from beginning to end, VIC 20 Exposed is an essential aid to every VIC 20 owner, from first time computer users right up to the serious programmer.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Dr. Ian Logan, Lee De Forest, Peter Falconer
Platform: Commodore VIC-20

The Z80 Reference Guide is an essential book for programmers involved in Z80 machine language programming.

The well laid out format of this book will make it clearer for readers to understand the capabilities of the Z80 instruction set.

Many of the instructions which operate on all of the registers have been grouped together, placing all of the opcodes on the one page for easier reference.

All the opcodes are HEX and decimal, making machine language programs for BASIC programmers easier to implement.

The book serves as a quick and informative reference manual.

The effect each instruction has on the status register has been clearly presented for easy reference.

The Z80 Reference Guide is an indispensable book for anyone interested in learning machine language programming skills.

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: Alan Tully
Platform: Z80