Amiga hardware reference manual
by Unknown author · first published 1989
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…scene. I keep an AmigaShell open and edit C code in Vim and compile it using SAS/C. I plan to do some 68000 assembly. Like Attic Greek, Amiga 3.X is a dead and a stable platform to develop for. The "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual" and the "Amiga Guru Book" have very detailed information for would-be Amiga programmers. Having never grown up with an Amiga, this hobby can not be attributed to nostalgia. The Amiga has a damn fine…
on “Why use Amiga in 2011? (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 3.9)” ↗I also spent some of my formative technical years on the Amiga. The Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is available on archive.org for posterity: https://archive.org/details/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-... I support not throwing out a real, original copy, though :-) As I get older I enjoy reading…
on “The Amiga Story: Conceived at Atari, Born at Commodore (2016)” ↗This is super cool. This is like a bare minimum framebuffer coprocessor. I remember pouring over the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual and figuring out how to position sprites in hardware. https://retro-commodore.eu/files/downloads/amigamanuals-xiik...
on “On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]” ↗Yup. Learned so much from that page in Amiga Hardware Reference Manual!
on “AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted” ↗Cut my teeth on the Amiga as well. Still have the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual in my bookshelf. Can't throw it out now? I was around 11-12 years old when I started to program on it. Certainly didn't understand some parts, in particular I remember the blitter's truth table [0] was…
on “The Amiga Story: Conceived at Atari, Born at Commodore (2016)” ↗> Still have the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual in my bookshelf. Can't throw it out now? If you do decide to ever dispose of the book, please don’t throw it away. Sell it so that this knowledge can be passed down to someone who wants to learn. Reprints…
on “The Amiga Story: Conceived at Atari, Born at Commodore (2016)” ↗> The Amiga blitter user manual didn’t help much either. The “Amiga Hardware Reference Manual” from 1989 tried to explain minterm calculation using confusing symbols, which frustrated many young demo makers at the time. That is super normal logical calculus that any worthwhile CS degree teaches…
on “AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted” ↗…ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries", "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Devices", "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries" and "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes & Autodocs". The "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, 3rd edition" and the "Amiga user interface style guide" were published at the same time but did not cover the same ground as the ""Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual" set. What was always absent from…
on “Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)” ↗> one copy of the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual aka The Book... my, this brings back dusty memories Babylonian Twins has such strong "Gods: Into the Wonderful" vibes, I wonder if that game was an inspiration for you https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/gods-into-the-wonderful…
on “Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly” ↗Thanks. I wonder if that was documented in the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual :) that was the only book I had back then. I remember it was mostly registers and assembly language.
on “Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly” ↗