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Sixty Programs for the Commodore 64 published in 1983 by Pan Books/Personal Computer News. This book is in excellent condition. As close to mint as a 22 year old book can be. Even the spine is uncreased. Just 1 inch of wrinkling on the edge of the cover and the first 10 leaves.

Only 11 of these programs are in the Gamebase at www.gamebase64.com so get typing, send them in and you could be part of C64 history (just like Frank;D).

Read on.

Remember the days when you used to rush home on Saturday with your copy of C&VG or Commodore User under your arm, fire up your C64 and start eagerly typing in the listing for the latest "great" game because you couldn't afford the �10 WHSmith wanted for Arcadia. Then look back fondly on the three days it took you to debug the program. And of course, at Christmas, as you looked forward to unwrapping your new tape, you found that your parents had bought you a book with yet more listings because they thought you enjoyed it.

Relive those days with 'Sixty Programs for the Commodore 64'. As the blurb on the back says:-

A massive software library for the price of a single cassette. Explosive games, dynamic graphics and invaluable utilities, this specially commissioned collection takes BASIC to the limits and beyond.

Four of the country's best-selling software writers have pooled their talents to bury programming cliches and exploit your micro's potential to the full.

Whether you are a games player or a more serious user, here's the book to make your micro work for you.

373 pages of type in heaven. Bid now or lose it forever!

[Frank]

You know... it would be a bit of a bugger if it was a duffer and had typo's all the way through

[Guinness]

Wasn't that the fun thing with type-ins? They taught you a lot about programming too (just debuggering them). ;D
The problem I always had was typing in long strings of spaces and trying to work out how many to put in.

[merman]

According to the Gamebase forum, the rest of the games from this book have ALREADY been typed in, and most will be in the next Gamebase release...

...but go ahead and buy it if you still want the fun of typing them in yourself!

[Frank]

You know... I might pass on that for now...

[Guinness]

merman said:

According to the Gamebase forum, the rest of the games from this book have ALREADY been typed in, and most will be in the next Gamebase release...

Oh well, we all make mistakes. Should have studied the forum.
Still, book sold for 7 quid profit. Only got it from oxfam for a quid last week, and it's not much good to me now I don't have a working C64 anymore. Glad someone could give it a good home.

[Frank]

Its funny.. I think i've actually got that one boxed up at my parents still. There's a fair few books there, probably with loads of type ins not done yet.

I think there was talk about this massive type in Game in the Input magazines, somekind of Rock climber/ indiana jones style game, jumping over bolders, avoiding snakes etc. Never actually seen it running... never bothered typing it in

Also got a ML Tron game which I typed in from CVG some years back on one of my disks here... not in Gamebase afaik along with some other type ins I saved onto disk. I'll have a sifty through tomorrow if I get time.