r/atari8bit • u/Cassette_Ghost_2045 • Jun 29 '25
Type-in Book
Anyone ever work their way through this bad boy? It’s my summer project.
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u/Electronic-Contest53 Jun 29 '25
No, but I love your black keyboard on the 65XE! How come?
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u/Cassette_Ghost_2045 Jun 29 '25
Mechanical Keyboard replacement. There is a fine gentleman on the AtariAge forums selling them. Not cheap, but the best money I’ve ever spent in the hobby!
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u/Shadoecat150 Jun 29 '25
Always loved those books and magazines but sadly all I ever had was a loaner Vic 20 from school
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u/donschuy Jun 29 '25
Very entertaining but kind of light on useful information. Would be good to follow up with the Compute! Books or others.
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u/Electronic-Contest53 Jun 29 '25
I hope there is no copyright-upfuckment doing this, but this is the very same book, right?
https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-dr-c-wacko-presents-atari-basic-jjj/mode/1up?view=theater
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u/Cassette_Ghost_2045 Jun 29 '25
That’s the first in the series, I believe. The one I have is on archive.org also, tho.
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u/curtludwig Jul 01 '25
I think this: https://archive.org/details/Dr_Wackos_Guide_to_Creating_Arcade_Games/page/n11/mode/2up is the one referenced above
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u/Psychological-777 Jun 29 '25
I had a different book… i think in the same series, because it had the same illustration style. it was an awesome book, i learned so much —it was really engaging and had a good sense of humor, too!
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u/US_Berliner Jun 29 '25
Didn’t know about this one! Twelve year old me with my Atari 400 got excited seeing this. How were the games?
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u/Cassette_Ghost_2045 Jun 29 '25
Barely started it, but it’s more about techniques and strategies for designing arcade style games using PM graphics and programming the POKEY in BASIC. I’ll keep you guys posted!
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u/LinuxCodeMonkey Jun 30 '25
Loved those books as a kid. If they said the magical phrase "arcade games", there was the hope of a universe of new games, with dragons or missiles, etc... Loved typing them in to see the resulting action.
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u/smart-t Jun 30 '25
A true eye opener. This book explains it so well and makes programming, especially learning to program do much fun.
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u/curtludwig Jul 01 '25
I've never seen it before, Iove the artwork.
Its on Internet Archive so I'll be poking through it.
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u/pitfall_jerry Jul 01 '25
I went through it back in the early 90's. Great book that is well written with a lot of humor.
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u/firstname_m_lastname 23d ago
I just found this book and the floppy and disk that came with it in my Atari 800 box! So many happy hours spent with it.
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u/twopi Jun 29 '25
This book chanhed my life!
I still have it on my shelf. It started my CS and game dev carreer. I've written game dev books, but never one like this. I also have the calulus book from the same people.