Macintosh Graphics And Sound 1986
Macintosh Graphics and Sound: Programming in Microsoft BASIC is a book by David A. Kater, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, California (ISBN 0-07-881177-5; copyright 1986 McGraw-Hill, Inc.).[1] Its numbered pages run to 276; Open Library also gives 276 pages and a September 1985 publication date.[2] The scan here is 284 PDF pages including the covers.
The programs are written for Microsoft BASIC 2.0, and most run on a 128K Macintosh; Chapter 9 covers working within 128K. The book covers QuickDraw shapes and patterns, printing and plotting, interactive graphics, sound, transferring images, animation and display manipulation.[3] The acknowledgements thank Renda Ozden, who designed many of the programs, and Russell Schnapp, author of Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2.[4]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers as printed in the contents.[5]
| Chapter | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | vii | |
| 1 | Macintosh Graphics | 1 |
| 2 | Printing and Plotting | 13 |
| 3 | Drawing Basic Shapes and Patterns | 51 |
| 4 | Interactive Graphics | 93 |
| 5 | Sound | 137 |
| 6 | Transferring Images | 167 |
| 7 | Animation Techniques | 199 |
| 8 | Manipulating Displays and Viewing Objects | 223 |
| 9 | Designing Efficient Programs | 259 |
| Index | 273 |
It is a programming book and contains no hardware or service information. Apple's service manuals are in Category:Apple Service Source.
Related titles
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh Game Animation 1985, Ron Person, Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1985, also Microsoft BASIC.
- Macintosh Graphics in Modula 2 1986, Russell L. Schnapp, Prentice-Hall, 1986.
- Graphics and Sound Programming Techniques For The Mac 1995, Dan Parks Sydow, M&T Books, 1995.
- The Magic Of Macintosh Programming Graphics and Sound 1986 links here.
Download: Macintosh_Graphics_And_Sound_1986.pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Title and copyright pages of the scan (PDF pp. 3-4): copyright 1986 McGraw-Hill, Inc.; ISBN 0-07-881177-5; acquisitions editor Jonathan Erickson, technical editor Kay Nelson.
- ↑ Macintosh Graphics and Sound (OL9975051M), Open Library—link(accessed 2026-09-30)
- ↑ Introduction, pp. vii-ix (PDF pp. 9-11).
- ↑ Acknowledgments (PDF pp. 7-8).
- ↑ Contents (PDF p. 5).