The more I read through the manual, the more I struggle to find stuff. The manual is very much geared toward people who have never used a computer before, and strongly emphasized BASIC. I think that's one of the many reasons it was such a hit, but it also makes it hard to find stuff that's important to know if you're gonna build games in Assembly. For example, it explains the INPUT command, but not how to read the keyboard or joystick. I've poked around (cheesy pun definitely intended
) with things like the character buffer, the value at 197/$C5 ("is a key pressed"), and a few other things, and I can kinda fake it, but it would be really nice to learn how most games do it. That's just one example out of many; others include the Assembly equivalent of WAIT, how to redefine a character, and I could go on.So are there any good e-books out there on the VIC that's meant more for experienced programmers? Right now my only resources are the manual, this forum, and whatever else I can scrounge off the web.
Thanks!
