daemon@decwrl.UUCP (01/02/84)
From: Paul 223-3439 CQ DX <moses::p_macdonald>
To the person looking for Commodore books for his brother:
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Two very good books for the Commodore 64 are:
o The Commodore 64: Getting the Most from It
by Tim Onosko 1983 Brady Press
A very good book with lots of hints and kinks. Haven't found any typos in
any of the programs yet. Lots of excellent appendices. Price $14.95 300pp.
o Commodore 64 User's Handbook
by Webster Systems Inc. 1983 Webster Systems
A tad bit better than Onosko's book, Covers Relative Files which Onosko does
not. Lots of useful appendices. About the same price and size as Onosko's book.
Notes on Commodore documentation:
The Commodore documentation would never win a technical publications prize.
The disk drive manual is a disaster, and the C-64 manual is a close second.
Lots of typos, particularly in the sample programs.
The Reference Manual is probably the best of the three, but with a $20 price
tag, your brother would do better with one of the two books I mentioned above.
The Reference Manual is, as the title implies, a reference and not a user's
guide.
If you'd like some proven programs that I've written send either a cassette
tape, or blank diskette with return postage to me. I'll send you some good
programs that you can disect to learn more about files, peeks, and pokes, etc.
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Paul MacDonald
P.O. Box 7068
Nashua, NH 03060 Tel: (617)493-3439
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