Datamost was a computer book publisher and computer game company founded by David Gordon and based in

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. Datamost operated in the early 1980s producing games and other software mainly for the

Apple II The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-mold ...

, Commodore 64 and

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, with some for the

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. It also published educational and reference materials related to computers and

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Software

Publications

* ''How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language'' (1981
Using 6502 Assembly Language by Randy Hyde , PDF
by Randy Hyde * ''The Elementary Commodore-64'' (1982) by William B. Sanders, Ph.D. * ''How to Write an Apple Program'' (1982) by Ed Faulk * ''Designing Apple Games with Pizazz'' (1983) by Greg Minter and John Ruffner * ''p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System)'' (1983) by

Randall Hyde Randall Hyde (born 1956) is best known as the author of ''The Art of Assembly Language'', a popular book on assembly language programming. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language. B ...

* ''Games Apples Play'' (1983) by Mark James Capella and Michael D. Weinstock * ''Games Ataris Play'' (1983) by Hal Glicksman and Kent Simon * ''Games Commodores Play'' (1983) by Phil Dennis and Greg Minter * ''The Elementary Apple'' (1983) by William B. Sanders * ''The Commodore 64 Experience'' (1983) by Mike Dean Klein * ''The Atari Experience'' by Adrien Z. Lamothe (1984) * ''Atari Roots'' (1984) by Mark Andrews * ''The Musical Atari'' (1984) by Hal Glickman * ''The Apple Almanac'' (1984) by Eric Goez and William Sanders * ''Apple Macintosh Primer'' (1984) by William Sanders * ''Inside Commodore DOS'' (1984, 1985) by Richard Immers and Gerald G. Neufeld * ''The Super Computer Snooper'' (1984) by Isaac Malitz

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*{{MobyGames company, company=datamost-inc Defunct software companies of the United States Defunct video game companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles Video game companies established in 1981