hh0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hiroshi Rit Howell) (10/02/90)
WANTED: _Programming the Macintosh in Assembly Language_
by James W. Coffron
ISBN 0-89588-263-9
SYBEX
!!because its out of print!!
!!and for reasonable offer!!
or: if you know of any Macintosh self-taught Macintosh Assember
books or good MC68000 books, please let me know the publishers'
information via e-mail or phone, if you prefer.
thank you in advance
hiroshi howell
hh0x@andrew.cmu.edu
(412)-268-4452smoke@well.sf.ca.us (Nicholas Jackiw) (10/03/90)
In article <Ib1vEUS00WBNI3LUdV@andrew.cmu.edu> hh0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hiroshi Rit Howell) writes: > >WANTED: _Programming the Macintosh in Assembly Language_ > by James W. Coffron > ISBN 0-89588-263-9 > SYBEX Caveat emptor. In my opinion, this is one of the worst hype/no-content offenders of the popular computer press. I bought it, unaware, several years ago (December 1986?), but can't sell it to you, as I promptly exchanged it for a refund. The book consists of essentially four parts--a worthless section of computer & machine language trivia, a page-wasting rehash of Motorala's _68000 Programming Reference Manual_, a massive and extremely buggy listing of 68000 paint program (assembled and debugged on a CP/M system, mind you...), and then an even lengthier listing of a "support library," which you were supposed to include with every machine language program you ever intended to write. The overall attention to detail and accuracy in the book was best exemplified by the fact that the name on the cover (Coffron, I think) was not the same name as that on the title page and the back cover (Steve Williams, I believe). >or: if you know of any Macintosh self-taught Macintosh Assember >books or good MC68000 books, please let me know the publishers' >information via e-mail or phone, if you prefer. > The best MC68000 book is The Book, _68000 Programming Reference Manual_, available at any good technical reference library. This will probably only be useful if you know some other assembly language already. I learned from it and Inside Mac Vol. I, having learned 6502 programming from a book by Lance Levanthal published by McGraw-Hill. I know that Levanthal has a 68000 book; you may want to look for it. Someone else recently inquired about Mac-specific 68000 tutorials; as far as I recall, there were few if any positive recommendations. -- --- * --- Nicholas Jackiw Smoke@well.sf.ca.us | Jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu Key Curriculum Press, Inc. Applelink: D3970 | (415) 548-2304 --- * ---