Books

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Sun Feb 14 17:40:04 1999

>
> > The West book has been a treasure to me. I've
> > known of it since I was a teenaged PET hacker, but never saw one to buy.
>
> If that's what I think it is, I want one too. I've been trying to find
> one forever, but I couldn't recall the title or the author's name. Could
> you post some more information about it?

Raeto West, "Programming the PET/CBM". It packed with lots of esoteric
information including stuff on non-Commodore disks, assembly fragments to
do useful things, many BASIC examples and more.

I still program for the PET, but these days, for speed of developement, I
use VICE and emulate the PET on my SPARCstation. I did finally manage to
port Zork I from the C-64 to the 40-col BASIC 2 PET. Something about
BASIC 4 is clobbering bits of memory, but I don't know where (could be the
DS/DS$ stuff; it s very convoluted).

-ethan
Received on Sun Feb 14 1999 - 17:40:04 GMT