Computer Tutor: Atari
Orwig and Hodges
1983
This book comes complete with the programming code (in Basic, of course) to write games for Atari home computers. They were all “written and operated on an Atari 400/800 home computer using 16K Microsoft Basic and Atari Basic computer programming languages.”
Nope – not a special collection. Just your basic small town public library non-fiction computer book collection.
12 responses so far ↓
michele // June 13, 2009 at 3:51 pm |
I love this – it’s great!
Kathy // June 26, 2009 at 12:01 pm |
Beautiful.
Claire // June 30, 2009 at 7:23 pm |
Really nice cover design.
William // July 1, 2009 at 10:52 am |
Me wantie!
Barney // July 1, 2009 at 7:15 pm |
That is too cool. I had an Atari 400. There used to be a magazine for them too with basic code you could type in every month. I remember one month it was a pac man type game with a dragon replacing the the pac man.
NT // July 6, 2009 at 9:54 pm |
I had an Atari Computer in the 80’s! I could have used this thing
lou // July 7, 2009 at 12:17 am |
Surely this could still be of use to someone, possibly an historian or retro-obsessed hipster? Perhaps it should be relocated to a special collection or history section, rather than removed from the collection altogether.
terryann // July 9, 2009 at 10:57 am |
i so totally want this book. i recently saw an atari in a pawn shop. i’m going back to get it now;)
Seth // July 20, 2009 at 2:47 pm |
This book should be relocated to a special collection since it has relevance to the DIY and Maker communities. There are tons of retro hackers who would love to get ahold of the information contained within. As a reference here is what you can do with another retro system: http://hackaday.com/2009/06/15/c64-twitter-client/
Giuseppe Cavaleri // July 23, 2009 at 2:15 pm |
I have an Atari 400 with a Basic cartridge to write the code for Atari games… that book would be so wonderful to have. I’ve always wanted to do something with that little box of Atari goodness.
Syl // July 25, 2009 at 10:59 am |
I remember my brother and I following that square dot around the black field on the TV screen like a ping pong ball. We thought this was a pretty hip game to have. Later Pacman and Mario.
Cathy // July 25, 2009 at 1:57 pm |
Books like this make me feel so young. I’ve never even seen an Atari, nor known anyone who owned one.
I’m 23 and 3 months pregnant with my first child. I am now wondering what my child will think of books like the ones on this website. He/she probably won’t even know what any of these words and terms mean!
Ah, well I will stop there before I start getting all philosophical. Leave it to me to ponder the meaning of life over a book about Atari.