Randall Hyde

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title: "Randall Hyde" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["university-of-california,-riverside-alumni", "living-people", "american-computer-programmers", "american-technology-writers", "1956-births"] description: "American non-fiction author (born 1956)" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Hyde" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American non-fiction author (born 1956) ::

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alma_mater	University of California, Riverside
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Biography

Hyde was educated, and later became a lecturer, at the University of California, Riverside. operating systems and control software. He was a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona from 1988 to 1993 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989 to 2000. While teaching at UC Riverside and Cal Poly, Pomona, Randy frequently taught classes pertaining to assembly programming (beginning and advanced), software design, compilers, and programming language theory.

He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote the SmartBASIC interpreter and ADAM Calc for the Coleco Adam. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM implementation of CP/M 2.2. He also wrote the 1983 Atari 2600 game Porky's while at Lazer, published by Fox Video Games.

Hyde has made many posts to the alt.lang.asm newsgroup in the past.

, Hyde operates and is president of Plantation Productions, Inc., a Riverside, California corporation providing sound, lighting, staging, and event support services for small to medium-sized venues, for audiences of 10 to 5,000 people.

Books

Modern books

Early Apple programming books

• How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981)
• p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983)

References

References

1. "Randall Hyde".
2. "Randall Hyde".
3. "The UCR Standard Assembly Language Library".
4. "Object-Oriented Programming in Assembly Language".
5. "ECN - July/Aug. 1985".
6. "ECN - Jan./Feb 1985".
7. "Adam News Network volume 97 issue 09".
8. "Sign in - Google Accounts".
9. "About Plantation Productions, Inc.".
10. "Using 6502 Assembly Language by Randy Hyde | PDF".

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