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Tim Hartnell Computer Books - ChickenMan - 01-06-2021
I've been collecting Tim Hartnell books for a while. He was an Australian journalist, self-taught programmer and extremely prolific, bestselling author of books and magazines on computer games back in the 1980's and early 1990's. He has either written, co-written or edited book for these computers including Microbee, VZ200, VZ300, BBC, Apple, ZX81, IBM, Mac, VIC20, Commodore, Spectrum, MSX, Timex, Dragon and many others.
I have been searching and have found some on the internet in all sorts of forms. Some as complete manuals, some as individual page scans, or individual chapter pdf's, etc etc. Most needed massive cleanups and most not searchable. So all cleaned up, covers added, de-skewed, ocr'ed and converted to searchable PDFs.
I've posted them all starting about 18months ago that I've been able to find and process at archive.org and in the past month or so have added a further 11 books to the collection. In total there are now 39 books. So if you into any of the above computers, check them out at
39 Tim Hartnell Books : Tim Hartnell : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
RE: Tim Hartnell Computer Books - ChickenMan - 09-06-2023
Just thought I'd post an update, now have 51 titles from Tim Hartnell up on Archive at the above address. The last few added were :-
Getting Acquainted With Your ZX81.pdf
ZX Spectrum Explored.pdf
Making The Most Of Your ZX80.pdf
70 Games for the Timex Sinclair 1000 and 1500.pdf
The Big Fat Book of Commodore 64 Games.pdf
The Timex Sinclair 2068 Explored.pdf
Let Your BBC Micro Teach You to Program.pdf
More Games For Your ZX Spectrum.pdf
Astounding Arcade Games for your AMSTRAD.pdf
The Giant Book of Games for the VZ300.pdf
Programming the Dick Smith VZ300.pdf
VZ200 Further Programming.pdf
Exploring Artificial Intelligence on your Spectrum+ and Spectrum.pdf
How to Program Your IBM PC.pdf
Dynamic Games for your Dragon 32.pdf
We also have 2 in the Microbee Repository where he was involved also
getting_started_on_your_microbee.pdf
penguin_book_of_microbee_games.pdf