Stella Programmer's Guide - reprinted book

[Stella Programmer's Guide - reprinted book]

[edited: link to PDF added]

 

Hi there! I just joined AtariAge a few months ago because I bought an old Atari VCS and now want to write my own game(s).

I did some C64 assembly before, but programming for the Atari 2600 is a real challenge!

 

While browsing for good technical documentation, I noticed a lot of people recommended to read the "Stella Programmer's Guide" by Steve Wright, which can be downloaded as PDF.

 

I thought it would be nice to have this guide as an actual booklet, so I took the PDF, cropped and scaled it for printing on US Trade Size (6" x 9"), then added a nice book-cover and finally uploaded it to lulu.com (the on-demand printing company).

 

You can order it for $2.45 here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/steve-wright/stella-programmers-guide/paperback/product-23612618.html

(in Europe the price is somewhat higher: €3.45)

 

Note that I'm not making a single dollar-cent on this; you only pay for the printing of the booklet. And lulu.com regularly has these promotions where they offer free shipping, making this a real bargain.

 

The booklet has a full-color cover (showing a heavy sixer) and looks and feels really nice - if I may say so myself. Please see the attachments.

PDF can be downloaded here: Stella_Programmers_Guide.pdf

 

Cheers,

Dion

 

P.S. On the back of the booklet, I added a little photo of a bike. I think you can guess the brand :-)

 

 

 

[Book?]

I ordered the book from Lulu and I'm happy to read the Newbie-sessions on paper instead of staring at my screen. And for the price you pay this is an excellent deal!

Some minor issues:

• The images at the start of sessions 14 and 18 are cut off. I think it makes sense to rotate those 90 degrees so they fit on the page.
• The printed color palettes in session 11 don't make much sense as the book is B/W only. Maybe better to leave them out.
• Session 25 (Advanced time-slicing) is missing, which I found a real interesting session.

Anyone got the source document containing the combined sessions? If so, I could make some changes and upload a v2 version to Lulu.com.

Note: I found a link to a word document on this thread, but that doesn't contain any images.

 

Cheers,

Dion