Duffy, Cameron
Commodore 16 Games Book
Despite the machine's lacklustre performance in the US, sales in Europe were strong and the machine retains a large fan base to this day. Popular in Easter bloc countries - particularly Hungary - the machine was the first home computer that many people owned; it therefore retains a significant 'nostalgia factor' amongst its userbase. As the original publisher Melbourne house wrote:
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If you 're only going to get one games book for your Commodore 16 then this is the book for you!
Easy to Program: With the unique CHEXSUM verification program you can make sure your games are bug free.
Hard to Beat: Games that will test your reflexes, your nerve, your logic, your strategy and your intelligence - educational games, simulation games, gambling games and much more!
All these games explore to the fullest the extended graphics and sound facilities of the new, easier to use BASIC.
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Acorn Books is proud to present its Retro Reproductions Series, a collection of classic computing works from the 1980s and 90s, lovingly reproduced in the 21st century. From standards of programming reference no self-respecting microcomputer programmer would be without, to obscure works not found in print anywhere else, these modern reprints are perfect for any connoisseur of retro computing.
Keywords: C64, Amiga, CPU, retro, Console, 8-bit, gaming, 1980s, programming, coding, learn to code, BASIC, nostalgia, throwback, vintage, THEC64, VIC 20, N64, Spectrum, 16-bit, Amstrad, Microcomputer, home computing
- Author(s)
- Duffy, Cameron
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2022
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Retro Reproductions
- Page amount
- 214 pages
- Category
- Information Technology, Telecommunications
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781789825442
- Printed ISBN
- 9781789825879