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Machine Language for Beginners

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Richard Mansfield has written so many articles in Compute! on the subject of machien language he could have esaily writen a 9000 page book. What he did write was a very good overview of the basics of Machine Language.
The book starts of with an introduction to how computers work, what Binary and Hex are, and how they relate to programing. All the basics are covred with enough detail for a beginer to understand what they are doing.
Next the subject of Monitors, and Aseblers is discussed. Followed by chapters on the instruction set, and a very usfull chapter on basic comands equivelnet ML instructions.
If you know your way around a computer you will definatly have a good understanding of the fundamentls and be able to code your own ML programs with this book.
On the down side Mansfield chose not to cover the BCC and BCS branch instructions, as well as anything other than the most fundamental math. BIT was also hardly mentioned.
This is definatly a good intudction to 6502 Machine Language, but if you realy want to master Ml you'll need more books.

These are a must have for those times to come when you Know your going to want to write your own piece(s) for this wonderful old machine. ;-)