This is the first episode of my bit by bit series - where I walk though the pages of Assembly Lines: The Complete Book by Roger Wagner and edited by Chris Torrence.

In this series, I share what I learn as I work through the material. I picked the IIe as the platform for the exploration because it’s… well, it’s fun. As soon as the computer boots you can do basic sound and graphics and machine language coding. With an Apple DOS disk, you can do integer basic and use the mini-assembler. With the Merlin disk, you have the full toolkit for doing low-level programming. It’s amazing and fun.

Here’s a link to the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_z8XUfqFSXHvJ5E5r80ZmMN7LRcCI0Zx

Currently, four episodes are up. I plan to post pretty much as soon as I finish digesting a chapter of the book.

Enjoy!

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