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The First Book of KIM (modern re-creation)

A re-creation of the classic 6502 programming book The First Book of KIM, being rebuilt in the page-layout app Affinity Publisher to fix OCR errors and mistakes in the original book, with a cleaned-up new version of the book/PDF planned for release online by year's end.

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The PDF scans currently available are unattractive, contain OCR errors, and the book itself has mistakes.

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  1. The First Book of KIM (modern re-creation)

    A re-creation of the classic 6502 programming book The First Book of KIM, being rebuilt in the page-layout app Affinity Publisher to fix OCR errors and mistakes in the original book, with a cleaned-up new version of the book/PDF planned for release online by year's end.

    Problem: The PDF scans currently available are unattractive, contain OCR errors, and the book itself has mistakes.

    Posted by @JKCalhoun · Original comment ↗

    “As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I'll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year's end.”