Melbourne House Books Checklist

As well as their extensive software range, Melbourne House were well known for releasing a wide selection of programming books for most 8-bit platforms. These were considered to be essential reading, especially coming from such a high profile publisher. While most were system specific, a few were generic multi-format titles.

We’ll update this over time adding more systems, titles and credits and additional details for as many of these as we can identify.

Updated: 9th February 2025

Multiformat

Title Author Cover Art
Learning With Adventure Programs Rosetta McLeod
The Computer And Video Games Book Of Adventure Keith Campbell

Amstrad

Title Author Cover Art
Ready Made Machine Language Routines for the Amstrad CPC464/664 Joe Pritchard

Atari

Title Author Cover Art
Atari 130XE Games Book Richard Woolcock, Graeme Stretton
Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner Kevin Bergin

BBC

Title Author Cover Art
BBC BASIC For Beginners David Smith
Building Blocks For BBC Games Bruce Bayley

Commodore 16

Title Author Cover Art
C16 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner
Commodore 16 Exposed Cameron Duffy, Richard Woolcock
Commodore 16 Games Book Cameron Duffy, Richard Woolcock

Commodore 64

 

Title Author Cover Art
Commodore 64 Exposed Bruce Bayley
Commodore 64 Games Book Clifford and Mark Ramshaw
Commodore 64 Games Book 2 Gregg Barnett

Dragon 32

Title Author Cover Art
Dragon 32 Programmers Reference Guide John Vander Reyden
Dragon Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner John Vander Reyden
Enter The Dragon Colin Carter

Oric-1

Title Author Cover Art
Meteoric Programming For The Oric-1

Vic 20

Title Author Cover Art
Vic 20 Exposed John Vander Reyden
Vic Innovative Computing Clifford Ramshaw

ZX Spectrum

Title Author Cover Art
Advanced Spectrum Machine Language David Webb
Over The Spectrum Philip Williams
Spectrum Hardware Manual Adrian Dickens
Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner William Tang
Super Charge Your Spectrum David Webb
The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly Dr Ian Logan, Dr Frank O’Hara
Understanding Your Spectrum: Basic and Machine Code Programming Dr Ian Logan

More titles, details and cover art to be added shortly.

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