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So I bought "Advanced Applesoft Techniquest with Sound and Graphics"
- Subject: So I bought "Advanced Applesoft Techniquest with Sound and Graphics"
- From: Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:26:15 -0800 (PST)
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And I am a little disappointed. Mind you for what I paid for it on amazon, or heck its original paperback price, its worth the money, and I have gotten a few handy arse tricks out of it.
It really does have some good thoughts and practices in it, but for a book named Advanced Applesoft Techniquest with Sound and Graphics, it has like 4 pages worth of graphics consisting of a screen picker and a shape routine, and 6 pages of sound stuff... nothing groundbreaking but good
Is it good? yes it has very good concepts on how to deal with basic program and libraries, though that second point is a little lost as we do most of our II programming on PC's and emulators then shuffle it over for final validation.
It also has a pretty darn detailed map of apple II memory and what is where
Is it what I was expecting .. no, 10 pages out of 162 doesnt qualify it as advanced techniques with sound and graphics
still happy to have it, still a bit disappointed