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Geeks-Line Publishing recently launched their Kickstarter for a four-volume history book on the PS2 that will be released Winter of 2024. Each volume will have specific dust jacket artwork: PS2 Anthology Vol.1 - God of War Dust Cover PS2 Anthology. Vol.2 - Okami Dust Cover PS2 Anthology. Vol.3 - Prince of Persia Dust Cover PS2 Anthology. Vol.4 - FFX Dust Cover Geeks-Line books sell out pretty quickly, so it might be a good idea to pledge/order the PS2 Anthology Book set priced at $164 which gives you 10% off compared to buying the books separately. Learn more here at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pcengineanthology/playstation-2-anthology
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Hi - (12/18/2022 Replaced with updated pictures) I have a number of Atari 8bit and a few Atari ST books that I have duplicates of. Please send me a PM if you see something you want. My prices are the best around. Many books are $10 or less with a few $15 or higher. Thanks for looking!! A few Atari ST books. Not pictured but I have the Atari Logo books available too. Not pictured however I have a nice photocopy of De Re Atari in a 3-Ring binder. Also not pictured but I have a very nice copy of of the original BASIC Reference Manual that came with the 400/800.
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Hi - I have 9 books in the Abacus Atari ST series and one COMPUTE! book. All are in good condition with no smoke or mold/mildew odor. Many people are collecting this Abacus series. This is your chance to get a jumpstart on the collection and save a bundle on shipping. I would like to sell as a lot but will consider all offers. I think each Abacus book is worth $25 or more. Note there are two of the book #2. All shipping via USPS Media Mail shipping only to the U.S. Buyer pays all shipping. PayPal I will gladly send or add additional pictures. Thanks for looking!!
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After 2 long years my Amiga CD32 Digital Encyclopedia (found here https://screenpedia.online/?product=album ) is finally finished! I would like to thank everybody that helped along the way whether it was answering one of my hundreds of questions or simply lending support. As a thankyou to the Amiga community I have added a discount code "amigalove" that can be added at the checkout to save around 28% off the purchase. Lastly for those that purchase the book and find any mistakes or missing facts about any of the games I will fix them and release an updated version at no extra charge for life. I hope you enjoy the Amiga CD32 Digital Encyclopedia!
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I have a bunch of video game systems and utilize an Everdrive for most of them. Since the cartridge just displays a list of games, I like to pull out my books (such as the Ultimate Guide to the NES), or whatever book goes with the system I'm playing, and go through the games/reviews to pick one out to play. I have the Harmony cart for the Atari and wondered if anyone can recommend a book for Atari 2600 games that includes descriptions, screenshots and reviews? I have this book, but would need to spend $30 bucks each to get the other 5 volumes (which I may plug away at over time). If you can recommend any others I'd appreciate it. I prefer physical copies vs ebooks. -
I have several manuals and books for sales. Please PM me if interested and we can 'talk price'. Thanks!!
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I don't know how much cross-over there is in this TI-99/4a sub-group with the Atari 8-bit home computer sub-forum, but I presume since this forum is hosted in the AtariAge forums that there must be at least a few people who collect for both computers. Right now, I have a six books for books for the TI-99/4a computer. They're the one's in my first TI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoBjUDMar84 I'm looking to expand the TI books that I have currently in trade for spare Atari books that I have in my personal collection. Is anyone interested in doing trading books with me? If so, then I'd like to use this thread to post the books I have, and others can post the books that they have for trade. If a few people like this idea, then over the next few days I'll make a list of TI books that I want and a list, maybe with pictures, of the Atari books that I have for trade. So... is anyone interested in trading their spare or unwanted TI books with me? Adam P.S. Oh, and if you have no interest in Atari books, then you can always give your spare TI books to me...
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In times like these it is becoming more important, urgent, even vital, that when going about your business and engaging in daily activities and hobbies such as our favorite pastime like vintage computing, that you keep an eye out for a complete set of manuals for your system. Including reference cards. They really add to the nostalgia factor and may even have information you don't know about. If you're an expert with your favorite machine and have no use for manuals get them anyways. They look good on a shelf and add a level of seriousness to your setup. And they're not getting any cheaper, but there's there's still time! Reading a vintage manual that you read decades ago can take you back just the same as playing with the actual hardware. The manuals and books add flavor and "detail" to the experience. I would even go as far to say they're more important than the boxes if you're messing with computers. The manuals and 3rd party books help shape today's experience in the same form as yesteryear's. They impart a sense of what was going on back then. What was important back then. It can be a real joy to work through the programming examples that illustrate various aspects of the hardware. And this applies even more so to 3rd party books - because authors not directly associated with the computer manufacturer had other goals in mind. Think experimentation and real working practical examples and projects. And different perspectives not shaped by corporate culture. Artful expressions and all that. And consider a folder of text files and .PDFs almost as valuable. You may be able to find a ton of stuff online today, it won't be there forever. Stuff goes missing on the internet all the time. Especially the suddenly important stuff that you just started looking for. While book and manual prices have remained cheap for the past 20 or so years, they are beginning to rise in price. It isn't too late to fill that bookshelf with goodies!
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I think some of y'all might be interested in this book, Retrogame Archeology, by John Aycock, about the early days of home video game development. It's not just a history, though; he goes into the programming and machine-level details and tricks early programmers used, even down to how to do copy protection on cassette tapes. He covers several topics that developers here would appreciate—dealing with limited memory and slow I/O, generating procedures, and so on. It's largely concerned with 8-bit machines, but he does have some examples from the TI. It's from Springer, which is an academic publisher, and so it's...well, it's pricey. $85 just for the e-book version! I'm fortunate to have access to it as faculty on my campus.
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I was initially going to start to learn Assembly, to program with my 800XL. But a lot of the books I see on 6502 for Atari have BASIC mixed into them, and also suggest that you know Atari BASIC to be able to follow along with it. More often than not, reading through them, I don't know enough about BASIC to know what they are talking about. So I decided I would take a step back, and try to learn Atari BASIC first. But there are so.....many.....books..... on this subject that I don't know where to start. I'd like to simply start from the beginning, learning as if I knew nothing of BASIC(even though I know little tidbits of it - enough to make small text-based programs, but nothing fancy with graphics or sound). So I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations on what book I should start with to learn Atari BASIC. And then once I learn most or all I can of BASIC, where to go from there to begin to learn 6502 Assembly for the Atari(since, there's almost as many books about this as there are for learning BASIC). EDIT: Just for clarification, I want to be able to use my 800XL for these things. I don't have any access to the new BASICs like Turbo BASIC XL, or FastBasic, or anything like that. For now all I have is the Atari BASIC Rev. B(will soon be C) that's built into my machine. So that's what recommendations should be built upon.
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I am pleased to announce that I have published my book Atari Projects: 50 Fun Projects for Your 8-Bit Home Computer. The goal of this book is to provide a series of fun projects to make it easy for beginners and experts alike to get the most out of their Atari 8-bit retro-computing hobby. Most projects are designed to be completed in less than an hour, and are ideal for the weekend hobbyist. The format of each project is a how-to that lists the pre-requisites, the time estimate for completion, some introductory information, a step by step guide, and some comments. The projects are presented in a sequential order that could be followed by someone new to the hobby. The book starts with projects related to purchasing and working with Atari computers and peripherals followed by chapters on software, BASIC programming, and useful resources. Included are projects on original hardware and software, as well as projects covering recent developments in technology such as flash memory devices and emulators that can enhance the Atari experience. The book is 122 pages with lots of color photos. It is printed on high-quality paper and sells for $19.80 on Lulu. Of course, all the projects can be found for free on the Atari Projects website if you don't want to buy the book. The advantage of the book is that the projects have been curated, presented in a logical order, and heavily edited. I hope you find the book fun and useful!
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I am selling a lot of VIDEO GAMES, LASER DISKS, CD’S, DVD’S, BOOKS, PLAYSTATION 2 & 3, X-BOX & X-BOX 360, and a couple WII GAMES.. I WOULD LIKE JUST TO SELL ALL OF THEM TO ONE PERSON. IT WOULD BE TO YOUR BENEFIT BECAUSE I WILL GIVE YOU. WEOME PRIE OR ALL OF THEM.. PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS GREAT DEAL, BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO GET RID OF ALL OF THESE FOR ONE SET PRICE... I HAVE APPROX. 75 ITEMS IF NOT MORE.. THANK YOU, FROM, LANI KOCHEVAR
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The Game Console - A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox
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From the album: My Books
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If you're as crazy about olden media as I am you may want to have a look at these torrents. Second post in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ag8ce1/ive_made_a_collection_of_approx_11000_old_game/ It's a terabyte or two worth of magz'n manuals kinda stuff...I already have a lot of it in my collection, but am now considering buying a new HDD and just grabbing it, because being able to download it all with couple of clicks instead of crawling thorugh all these sites and picking them individually is a massive time saver. -
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I am keen to get the APF with computer keyboard. I also collect 6800 and 6809 systems going back to SWTPC computers. In addition, I like collecting old computer books. Topics such as microprocessors, microprocessor interfacing, assembly language, BASIC books and so forth. Cheers
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Okay, so I am a huge science fiction nut, from Asimov to Herbert to Adams. But I dont just love Science Fiction books, I love movies and television too, like Blade Runner, and Star Trek. Another big thing I love is Science Fiction in video games and i cant think of a decade of more science fiction in gaming than the Eighties. If you are digging in a pile of atari games and pick put a random cart, id say 9/10 its going to be at least something sci fi releated (most likely a Space Invaders clone but thats neither here nor there) like space or robots or aliens. Now my question is which books or rather which decade of books would you say inspired these science fiction stories found in the manuals of these old games? I just love these stories and id love to read full books like them! This doesnt have to be atari necessarily, arcades work too! -
3 Atari ST Programming books (2 by Abacus Software and 1 by Clayton Walnum Atari ST INTERNALS ATARI ST GEM Programmer’s Reference Clayton Walnum’s C-manships COMPLETE Learn to program your ST in C! Eric in Montreal, Canada Contact me if your interested. ericet@macdev.ca
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Hi everyone! Time for another posting of goodies for sale. Some of these are going to be really inexpensive... I plan on having $1 items, $2 items etc as well as some more normal priced items. I'll also have bundled items and of course, if you purchase a bunch of items, I'll try to make a deal. Let me know your thoughts. I want to make a minimum order of say $10 or more. Shipping will be actual postage price.. no handling fees or anything like that. One thing to note is that I am in Canada and shipping is sometimes high. At this point I am adding photos and will start adding the prices when I finish uploading the photos. And of course, without further delay... the items.... MegaMan NES $30 (only as I can get $40 in trade for it) Vic 20 Xonox Manual for Sir Lancelot $5 Metroid 2 promo keychain $5 Club Nintendo Playing Cards $5 Code of Princess 3DS - Game with artbook and CD soundtrack $25 5200 Manuals $1 each or the whole lot for $5 $2 items or $3 for 2 items Ok... that's all for now. If I find anything else, I will be sure to add them but this is it for the time being. See something you like... let me know and we can make it happen. Thanks for reading!
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Hi Got a few items that I've put on ebay, but as they're not advertised with international shipping, you can PM me here direct if interested. hardware currently in good working order, but (due to age) no guarantees as to future reliability ■ THREE of these five XENs are available - serious offers only please ■ TWO hard to find program recorders ■ Broderbund Apple Science Kit (it's a "review copy") ■ collection of books - available as singles or complete. Note: these are in the UK and shipping will likely be: 65XEN - £25 (USA), £18 (Europe) £10 (UK) Program Recorder - £15 (USA), £10 (Europe), £7 (UK) Book or Science Kit - £10 (USA), £7 (Europe), £5 (UK) please make offers via PM obviously multiples will be cheaper, all post insured/tracked, paypal gift only
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Home Video Games Identification and Value Guide
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From the album: My Books
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From the album: My Books
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Hello, AtariAge! This is my first post on here, although I have been benefiting from all the information from this amazing community for a while now (and I just realized I should have posted this in the newbie section). My dad had an Atari 2600 when he was a kid, and he still had it while I was growing up. We had quite a few games, but we ended up losing them in a flood. About a year ago I got the Atari bug and ordered a bunch of games on eBay. I stumbled onto AtariAge and discovered that there are still people programming games for the system. I watched a lot of David Crane presentation videos and had a pretty good idea of how the games are actually made, but I haven't tried to make one until very recently. I have been programming since I was about 9. I started with BASIC, and learned Python, C++, and a bit of assembly. I am now preparing to begin writing my first game for the 2600. I have many ideas, but I will start with something simple first. I was thinking of making a snake game and perhaps a Nyan Cat game (yes, I know these have been done before). I have taken a look at the tutorials on this site ("2600 101" and "Collect") and ordered Racing the Beam and Making Games for the Atari 2600 on Amazon yesterday. Before trying to make a game, though, I wanted to make some super easy (or so I thought) mini-demos. I wanted to make a USA flag to learn how to use the playfield and players, but I was having a some very strange issues with the colors. I am using assembly language (not batari Basic), the DASM assembler, and the Stella emulator. I also ordered a Harmony cartridge for testing on a real system and *ahem* "research". So, aside from the "2600 101" and "Collect" tutorials, and Racing the Beam and Making Games for the Atari 2600 (and of course the Stella Programmer's Guide) is there any other material I should be reading or watching to help me out? Any tips for somebody just starting out? And are there any good 6502 manuals that you know of? I know simple 6502 assembly, but when I read other people's code I see a lot of commands that I don't know. Thank you for your time!
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