BBC Game Programming Books

[jon28]

I was just clearing out a cupboard and found some old BBC game related programming books;

- How To Write Adventure Games by Peter Killworth
- Creative Assembler How To Write Arcade Games by Jonathan Griffiths
- Creating Adventure Programs On The BBC Micro by Ian Watt
- BBC Micro Assembler Workshop by Bruce Smith
- BBC Micro Assembly Language by Bruce Smith
- Assembly Programming Made Easy For The BBC Micro by Ian Murray
- Personal Computer News Sixty Programs For The BBC Micro

A few questions;

- Are they worth anything?
- Is anyone interested in them?
- Has anyone scanned any of them in yet?
- If not, would me taking them apart to scan them in properly by sacrilege?

I found a stack of other BBC books and manuals as well, though the above appear to be the more interesting ones.

[Arcadian]

Hi Jon, thanks for posting

- Are they worth anything?

You should definitely list Creative Assembler on eBay. I think a copy fetched approx £45 a month or two back!

I doubt you'd get anywhere near that amount for any of the others, mind ...

- Has anyone scanned any of them in yet?

I recently compiled a list of all of the Advanced Programming/Assembler-type books that I could find in scanned format on the web:
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/ind ... UsefulDocs

So this might be a good reference ...

(I know Creative Assembler has already been taken care off).

- If not, would me taking them apart to scan them in properly be sacrilege?

Not at all!

That would be an absolutely FANTASTIC gesture - and would no-doubt be of tremendous benefit to those coding new software for the Beeb (check out the Retro Software site for more info)

So .. go for it!!

[Arcadian]

Forgot to say I could host them for you at http://books.acornpreservation.org too (I'd also combine the scans into PDF downloads)

If you decide to go ahead with any scanning, please scan at 300dpi greyscale and save to [uncompressed] .png format. Ta!

[Samwise]

Ooh, if you don't want it, I'll happily give you a few quid for:

Creating Adventure Programs On The BBC Micro by Ian Watt

It's already available online, so there's no benefit from scanning it:

http://www.c.r.dewhurst5.freeuk.com/bbc ... apotbm.zip

PM me if you're interested.

Sam.

[SarahWalker]

You should definitely list Creative Assembler on eBay. I think a copy fetched approx £45 a month or two back!

Really? Might have to sell my copy then!

[Dreamland Fantasy]

I'll be happy to take 'How To Write Adventure Games by Peter Killworth' off of your hands.

Kind regards,

Francis.

[Dreamland Fantasy]

Hi Jon, thanks for posting

- Are they worth anything?

You should definitely list Creative Assembler on eBay. I think a copy fetched approx £45 a month or two back!

I obviously bought my copy off of eBay at the right time then. I think I paid about £8 or thereabouts for it.

Kind regards,

Francis.

[Dreamland Fantasy]

If not, would me taking them apart to scan them in properly by sacrilege?

In my opinion yes, but I think I'm in the minority there.

Kind regards,

Francis.

[jon28]

There are some other books I found in the same box, nothing much exciting - I'll put a full list up once I've gone through the rest of my BBC stuff at the weekend. I will scan at least something in, I'm a bit anal with that kind of stuff so unless I can get a good scan I won't bother (hence the question about taking the books apart).

I'll probably end up listing at least some of them on eBay, I don't like selling direct to people with things like this - I don't want to get ripped off and I don't want to rip anyone else off, so eBay is a good way for me to sell.

I don't think I've got much else of interest, except I did have a disk with some demo stuff direct from Gary Partis at one point - might be something interesting on that if I can find it. Plus an autographed copy of one of the Aardvark games, along with a note had written note from the man himself.

[AJW]

Creative Assembler is already available as a PDF:

http://www.bbcdocs.com/

PM sent.

[fuzzel]

Does anyone know where I can get a scanned copy of Assembly Programming Made Easy For The BBC Micro by Ian Murray ?
I've just read a short article in the Micro User magazine and it definitely looks a good read.