Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner (Retro Reproductions)

A great tome to have in your Speccy collection

I used this book when I was maybe 10 or 11, and it was great I was able to learn Z80 machine code and grasp the concepts of binary and hexadecimal because of the easy explanations provided in this book. More that 30 years later I bought this book for two reasons, number one I wanted to see how it compared to what I remember and number 2 I backed the ZX Spectrum Next kickstarter, and have been playing with Spectrum emulators and thought this book would be interesting to work through again. The book is a great resource, I have recommended it to people asking for a something consumable for an absolute beginner and this is an easy recommendation. Now, on re-reading the book and being an experienced assembly language programmer on a number of architectures I do recognize a few typos/minor errors in the book. But, it did not cause too much of a hindrance when I went through this as a child and I still think it is a great resource to get started. Thanks Acorn Books, for reprinting this book!

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This is a really nice book. It is an excellent introduction to Machine Language coding for the Z80 processor that is used by the Spectrum. I bought the book to play with the new "The Spectrum" replica.

Tenia ganas de adquirirlo desde hace mucho, volvi con mi Spectrum desde hace más de 30 años, y la verdad es que recordaba mucho cuando desarrollaba videojuegos, perdi la práctica y la memoria despues de tantos años ya no es lo mismo para volver al Z80 en Assembler, un gran libro, bien estructurado siguiendo el original de los años 80/90 realmente brillante y muy recomendado.

The book is fanastic. Very readable style and good detail and explanation. Not far in and I can start to understand how CPU z80 is works. For example, I was too lazy to recall or understand HEX representation of binary or decimal. Now it's obvious how it relates to bits in context of an 8bit process. Nice cover and well bound even if the print quality seems a bit low budget. Would recommend even if it's a subject you are only vaguely interested in.

If you're after a fairly easy to follow introduction to assembly for the Spectrum then you could do worse than this. It's a faithful reproduction of the original book and presents good value for money given that original runs of books on assembly seem to go for a premium now.