Boot Camp, by Tom Hudson, HTMLified

[Atari_Ace]

Boot Camp was a column on Assembly Language progamming that ran in ANALOG Computing. It was initially written by Tom Hudson, who wrote twenty one columns between September 1983 and March 1986. It was later authored by Karl Wiegers, who wrote an additional twenty columns from April 1986 to February 1989. In May of 1989, ANALOG began republishing the original Tom Hudson columns until the magazine ceased publication at the end of 1989.

I was always impressed by these early columns. The Assembler/Editor cartridge and these columns were my first tentative steps into the world of 6502 assembly. Later I picked up Leventhal's 6502 book and MAC/65, and never looked back.

In my spare time I've been converting the original Tom Hudson columns into HTML, to make these more widely available. I don't have a website set up for them yet (I'll likely do so at some point), so I've decided to post them here for now.

Enjoy!

Edit: I put the page up at http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/bootcamp.htm for now.

bc1.zip

Edited September 5, 2016 by Atari_Ace

[gozar]

Hope you don't mind, I ran your html through Pandoc to create an ePub file, and then used Calibre to convert to a .mobi file for Kindles.

 

Boot Camp - epub and mobi.zip

[+therealbountybob]

Thanks Atari_Ace :thumbsup:

[Atari_Ace]

Hope you don't mind, I ran your html through Pandoc to create an ePub file, and then used Calibre to convert to a .mobi file for Kindles.

 

 

That's fine, I intended to create a manual epub of it at some point. The html to epub tools tend to generate terrible epubs.

 

I've done some additional minor edits and added the remaining columns. I will eventually make a little navigation page so you can jump from column to column, but for now, here's the raw material as two pages.

 

Tom Hudson columns

http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/bc1.htm

Karl Wiegers columns (and one by Matthew J.W. Ratcliff)

http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/bc2.htm

Edited September 10, 2016 by Atari_Ace

[Atari_Ace]

Some more language material from the pages of ANALOG, translated to HTML:

• http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/askforth.htm: Ask Sally Forth, later Ask Mr. Forth was a column about the Forth language that ran from September 1983 until June 1985. Apparently interest wasn't as strong as for BASIC and Assembly tutorials, but fourteen columns appeared. I dabbled in Forth now and again and it never really clicked with me, but it was an important part of my early programming experiences. I was always impressed by the variety of implementations, all slightly different.
• http://ksquiggle.neocities.org/anlisp.htm: LISP barely registered on the Atari but ANALOG did run a review and a tutorial early on about this language better known for Artificial Intelligence programming on minicomputers.

Like the Boot Camp columns, I expect these to need some minor corrections, but the current versions should be fairly close to final.