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Gary Little's New Book, "Inside the Apple //e"

This is a useful book.  The kind you want to keep, read, and constantly use as a reference.  About 400 pages thick, 6x9, published by Brady Communications at $19.95.

Gary, a lawyer in Vancouver, has been serious about Apples since 1978 (almost as long as me).  He's a long-time subscriber to AAL, Call APPLE, and other sources of the in-depth knowledge crammed into his book.  He's also a programmer, with serious software on the market such as "Modem Magician".  He knows what he's writing about, and writes it well.

A walk through the chapters may be the quickest way to get the measure of the book.
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1--condensed history of Apple; intro. to binary, hex, and assembly language.

2--inside the 6502 itself: zero page, stack, registers, status, opcodes, address modes, I/O, interrupts, and the memory layout in the //e.

3--the Apple monitor:  the commands explained, plus a table of the most useful subroutines in the monitor ROM.

4--Applesoft:  memory map, tokenization, variable storage, integer and real numbers, the CHRGET subroutine, linking to assembly language programs, subroutines in ROM, and more.

5--DOS:  internal structure, memory map, page 3 vectors, VTOC, catalog, track/sector lists, RWTS, and a read.sector program.  ProDOS:  memory map, page 3 vectors, volume bit map, directory, MLI, and a read.block program.

6--character input and the keyboard:  RDKEY, 80-column firmware, RDCHAR, reading a line, changing input devices, encoding of keys, auto-repeat, type-ahead, all about RESET.

7--character and graphic output:  too much to list here, all the way through double hi-res.

8--memory management:  bank switching of ROM and RAM, auxiliary RAM, running co-resident programs.

9--speaker and cassette ports:  music and voice.

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10--game port:  experiments, push button inputs, annunciators, strobe.

11--peripheral slots:  I/O memory locations, slot ROM, expansion ROM, scratchpad RAM, auxiliary slot, software protocols.
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Many useful and interesting programs are listed in the book.  There is an optional diskette available (coupon bound in the book offers it for $20).  The diskette also includes a few bonus utility programs for use with DOS 3.3, including RAMDISK and DISK MAP.

Each chapter ends with a bibliography of related books, manuals, and articles.  (You'll find lots of references to AAL.)

If you grew along with Apple, as I did, you probably don't really need this book.  On the other hand, you will still enjoy it, and probably want it for you collection.  If you are relatively new, and having difficulty gathering all the information from past publications and scattered sources, you will want Gary's book too.

As you might suspect, we like the book so well we have decided to stock it.  You can get from us for $18 plus shipping (and tax where applicable).
