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The Complete Book of Macintosh Assembly Language Programming Volume II 1987

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The Complete Book of Macintosh Assembly Language Programming, Volume II is a 1987 book by Dan Weston, published by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois. ISBN 0-673-18583-4; Library of Congress QA76.8.M3W47 1986, card number 86-3866, a record shared with Volume I (ISBN 0-673-18379-3).[1][2] The text and appendices run to p. 414, followed by the index.[3]

Weston's compatibility note says the book is a companion to Volume I but does not assume the reader has it; it does assume some toolbox programming experience. All listings are in the format of Apple's Macintosh 68000 Development System (MDS).[4] The examples are drawn from complete programs, and several deal with the differences between the 64K ROM of the Macintosh 128K and 512K and the 128K ROM of the Macintosh Plus: low-memory globals, ROM patches and how a program tells which ROM is installed.[5] The source code was sold separately on disk by Weston's company, Nerdworks, of Salem, Oregon.[6]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[7]

  • Chapter 1: Memory Management and Debugging, p. 1
  • Chapter 2: New ROM-Old ROM, p. 27
  • Chapter 3: The Clipboard and Switcher: Sharing Data Between Programs, p. 48
  • Chapter 4: Using the Print Manager, p. 75
  • Chapter 5: HFS, MFS, and the Standard File Package, p. 112
  • Chapter 6: Making Your Macintosh Talk (MacinTalk), p. 147
  • Chapter 7: Dialog User Items, p. 179
  • Chapter 8: RAM Disk+, p. 208
  • Chapter 9: The List Manager, p. 257
  • Appendix A: Source Code Listing, p. 289
  • Appendix B: Other Sources of Macintosh Information, p. 401
  • Appendix C: Trap Words and Heap Compaction Information, p. 403

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book. Its hardware content is the memory map and ROM behaviour as a program sees them; it has no service procedures, schematics or electrical data. Apple's repair documentation for the compact Macintosh is in Category:Apple Service Source. The source code disk is not included. The hosted scan is 441 PDF pages, including the covers, the disk order card and the publisher's advertising pages.

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References

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  1. ↑ Dan Weston, The Complete Book of Macintosh Assembly Language Programming, Volume II (Scott, Foresman, 1987), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 4-5).
  2. ↑ Open Library, The complete book of Macintosh assembly language programming, record OL2711124M (2 v.), from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ Weston, Complete Book, Vol. II, Appendix C and Index, pp. 402-414 and following (PDF pp. 416-434).
  4. ↑ Weston, Complete Book, Vol. II, Preface and Compatibility Note (PDF pp. 12-13).
  5. ↑ Weston, Complete Book, Vol. II, Chapter 1, pp. 1-4, and Chapter 2, pp. 27-47 (PDF pp. 15-18 and 41-61).
  6. ↑ Weston, Complete Book, Vol. II, source code disk order page (PDF p. 1).
  7. ↑ Weston, Complete Book, Vol. II, Contents (PDF pp. 6-11).
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