From Retrosoftware

Contents 1 Useful Docs 1.1 User Guides 1.2 Assembly Language Programming 1.3 Basic Programming (Advanced) 1.4 Machine Architecture/Technical Information 1.5 Disc Filing Systems (Advanced) 1.6 Graphics (Advanced) 1.7 Sound & Music 1.8 Adventure Design and Programming 1.9 Game Disassemblies 1.10 Reverse Engineered Software 1.11 Games with Source Code

Useful Docs

User Guides

• The BBC Microcomputer User Guide by Gray, Dickens & Holmes (Browsable HTML version)

  The original User Guide - everything starts here. - Samwise

• Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro by Gray, Dickens & Holmes

  The essential companion volume to the User Guide. - Samwise

• Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro (CHM Version) by Gray, Dickens & Holmes

  Windows Help format of the essential companion volume to the User Guide. - Samwise

• New Advanced User Guide by Mark Holmes & Adrian Dickens

  Covers Masters etc. quite well. A good contender for people wanting to push their game to it's limits. - SteveO

• Electron Advanced User Guide by Mark Holmes & Adrian Dickens

Assembly Language Programming

• Creative Assembler by Jonathan Griffiths

  Seemed a good one from what I've seen. - AndrewW

• Discovering BBC Micro Machine Code by A P Stephenson
• Mastering Assembly Code by Richard Vialls
• The BBC Micro Machine Code Portfolio by Bruce Smith

Basic Programming (Advanced)

• Advanced Programming for the BBC by Mike James and S M Gee
• The Super-User's BBC Micro Book by Brian James and Graham Keeler

Machine Architecture/Technical Information

• The BBC Micro Revealed by Jeremy Ruston

Disc Filing Systems (Advanced)

• Advanced Disk User Guide by Colin Pharo

Graphics (Advanced)

• Advanced Graphics with the BBC Model B Microcomputer by I O Angell and B J Jones

Sound & Music

• BBC Micro Music Masterclass by Ian Ritchie

Adventure Design and Programming

• Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer by Tim Hartnell
• Creating Adventure Programs on the BBC Micro by Ian Watt
• Playing, Studying and Writing Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure Games) by Dennis G. Jerz

  Quite an interesting resource about text adventures and features a number of useful links - Francis G. Loch

Game Disassemblies

According to Christopher Dewhurst: these disassemblies "are great way of learning 6502 assembly language, even if a little daunting at first, but particularly rewarding if you come across a piece of code and are able to say to yourself, I can do that more efficiently!"

• Grabit
• Siege
• Swoop

Reverse Engineered Software

Some details of reverse engineering for various titles including file formats:

• Repton Infinity by tautology
• Hobgoblin by Cybershark and tautology
• Shark by DavidB
• Epic Adventure version 1 (Castle Frankenstein) by tautology (work in progress)
• Repton by DavidB
• Repton 2 by DavidB
• BoneCruncher by DavidB
• Icarus by DavidB
• Survivors by tautology

Games with Source Code

• Jet Set Miner by Tom Walker
• Sparse Invaders by Neil Beresford - fully commented GPL source code of a simple P65 assembler Space Invaders clone designed for use with the SWIFT IDE as an extensible base for further projects.