Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

I recently got a breadboard and some 8bit processors, naturally i landed on this book while learning what to expect. This book does a good job getting into the how and why's of the platform before diving into any code. Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C Touches on some assembly before abstracting upwards; It's great book overall, if you want to know what goes on deep inside a computer, or if you want to know how to take advantage of limited memory while coding for ancient hardware... This is a good book to have, the author does a great job explaining concepts that would otherwise be difficult to understand.

The book is well written, just as his last was. The IDE on the other hand is a chore to use. The Atari 2600 Emulation worked fantastic, whereas any of the emulations that involve C run terribly slow and force me to reload the page whenever I make slight changes to the code. I tried in both Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. In Firefox the window does not need to be reloaded but instead, fails to provide error notifications and will not run any code. Even the examples will not run. I had none of these problems when running the Atari Emulator.

I have read a lot of books and myself written many web tutorials on similar subject matter trying to demystify old arcade games and their hardware, and I am blown away how well this book is written. This book presents topics in a very accessible way that is downright impressive. I truly believe an arcade hobbyist with just minor programming experience in a high level language like java, javascript, perl, python etc, could pick up this book and understand it.I bought this book for the information on the game architectures as I develop hacks for old games and already only after 50 pages I've learned a bunch that I did not know. I have not used the online compiler yet but I look forward to checking that out. Great book!

Great book, love it. But I can't use it on my Paperwhite...........what the hell. I've got other books that are really graphical and I can still use them on it. There's no good excuse for this.

I had fun with this book. But I really think it is because I am in the target audience. I know some assembler but I am not an expert. I work in a language similar to C.But most importantly, I have always wanted to know more about the internals of early 80s video games. This book provides that insight and makes it easy to experiment.The online tools allow you to write your own code and experiment directly with the web-based emulator or download roms for running emulator locally.

I had high hopes for "Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C" but was left disappointed. My biggest complaint is that this book did not have a target audience in mind. Is it for someone who knows C but doesn't know game programming? No, there's not enough game programming logic in the book. Is it for someone who knows game programming in assembly but doesn't know C? No, while the C primer isn't bad it's too brief to actually be useful. So you need to already know game programming and C programming before picking up this book but then what's the point.

Solid book. It covers some of the arcade history prior to going into the technical concepts behind the hardware and software.

As a recent Game Design Graduate this book was an awesome refresher on computer architecture, and organization. This book goes into depth the intricate processes of machine code and applies it to making awesome arcade games. Discussing topics in this book has helped me in interviews, and it is a VERY accessible book to read. I love learning about retro arcade games, and feel it has improved my technical skills and understanding of programming as a whole. Great book!

Amazing content.

A fun and interesting book, following the modern wave of retro-development.I'd give it two stars if not for two things:1. there is a somewhat annoying amount of errata2. there are no exercises in the book, which would make the study much more effective.All in all though, I'm very happy of it.

Pretty entertaining if you like retro development. Explains how C language works under the hood. I recommend this book and all others of the series.

C'est le livre dont j'ai toujours révé d'avoir. Je possedais déjà l'exemple concernant le developpement sur l'Atari 2600 qui est une mine d'or!. Celui ci l'est tout autant!!. Vivement les prochains!!!Guys your books are Fantastic!!!... Please publish more!!!!

very good, but it does not open on my 2018 kindle paper white