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The BBC Microcomputer User Guide by Gray, Dickens & Holmes (Browsable HTML version)
The original User Guide - everything starts here. - Samwise
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Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro by Gray, Dickens & Holmes
The essential companion volume to the User Guide. - Samwise
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Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro (CHM Version) by Gray, Dickens & Holmes
Windows Help format of the essential companion volume to the User Guide. - Samwise
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DEAD LINK New Advanced User Guide by Mark Holmes & Adrian Dickens
Covers Masters etc. quite well. A good contender for people wanting to push their game to it's limits. - SteveO
- DEAD LINK Electron Advanced User Guide by Mark Holmes & Adrian Dickens
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Creative Assembler by Jonathan Griffiths
Seemed a good one from what I've seen. - AndrewW
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DEAD LINK Discovering BBC Micro Machine Code by A P Stephenson
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Mastering Assembly Code by Richard Vialls
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The BBC Micro Machine Code Portfolio by Bruce Smith
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Advanced Programming for the BBC by Mike James and S M Gee
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The Super-User's BBC Micro Book by Brian James and Graham Keeler
- The BBC Micro Revealed by Jeremy Ruston
- Advanced Disk User Guide by Colin Pharo
- Advanced Graphics with the BBC Model B Microcomputer by I O Angell and B J Jones
- BBC Micro Music Masterclass by Ian Ritchie
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Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer by Tim Hartnell
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Creating Adventure Programs on the BBC Micro by Ian Watt
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Playing, Studying and Writing Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure Games) by Dennis G. Jerz
Quite an interesting resource about text adventures and features a number of useful links - Francis G. Loch
According to Christopher Dewhurst: these disassemblies "are great way of learning 6502 assembly language, even if a little daunting at first, but particularly rewarding if you come across a piece of code and are able to say to yourself, I can do that more efficiently!"
Some details of reverse engineering for various titles including file formats:
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Repton Infinity by tautology
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Hobgoblin by Cybershark and tautology
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Shark by DavidB
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Epic Adventure version 1 (Castle Frankenstein) by tautology (work in progress)
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Repton by DavidB
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Repton 2 by DavidB
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BoneCruncher by DavidB
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Icarus by DavidB
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Survivors by tautology
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Firetrack by DavidB
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Magic Mushrooms by DavidB
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Moon Raider by DavidB
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Ravenskull by DavidB
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Clogger by DavidB
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Decoding Repton compiled by Gerald J Holdsworth from various sources
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Jet Set Miner by Tom Walker
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Sparse Invaders by Neil Beresford - fully commented GPL source code of a simple P65 assembler Space Invaders clone designed for use with the SWIFT IDE as an extensible base for further projects.