While trying to think of ways to make learning the C programming language a less frustrating experience, I was struck recently with the idea of writing a complete tutorial on C entirely from the viewpoint of writing games. I’d be teaching pure ISO standard C, so that means I’d have to stick with text-based games. Still, doable.
Anyway, thinking about this made me remember a set of C books (BASIC Computer Games and More BASIC Computer Games) that I used to check out all the time from the Sacramento Belle Cooledge Library when I was a kid (it was at a completely different location back then, FWIW). These were books filled with nothing but listings of BASIC source code for hundreds of text-based games.
So I did a quick search for these books, to see if I could still find them somewhere, and lo, to my surprise, their complete contents can be found at AtariArchives.org!