Yesterday’s post was not really what I was aiming at. I’ve started two posts for today, both were interesting, but required a lot of research, before I go ahead and post them.
It turns out, I have a little case of writers block, so I’ll just mention some other sites that I’ve run across.
I’ve bought several books of games written in basic over the years. Creative Computing published and David Ahl edited three of them; Basic Computer Games, More Basic Computer Games, and Big Computer Games. Ballantine Books published Tim Hartnell’s Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer. These and others are available online at http://www.atariarchives.org.
The original Basic Computer Games is now available in an e-book edition. All the original games have been re-coded into easy-to-use Small Basic, and it includes all of Beker’s drawings (plus a few new ones as well). http://www.computerscienceforkids.com/Pages/SmallBasicComputerGames.aspx George Beker’s drawings are also available separately as http://www.bekerbots.com/.
Apple 2 Online, http://apple2online.com/, has online copies of Apple books and images of software disks.
Ken Gagne has a a blog at http://www.apl2bits.net/ called Apple II Bits.
Last but not least, I just received my copy of The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan.
Those are all great sites! Thanks for mentioning my book. Maybe you could post a review later on. 🙂