Amiga ROM kernel reference manual
Amiga ROM kernel reference manual
by Unknown author · first published 1990
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Me neither, until relatively recently I found documentation for romwack. It lives in the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec"[0] book. My pyamigadebug[1] is backed by this debugger and the newer SAD that replaces it in AmigaOS 3.x. Making function calls and uploading code to the Amiga and running it is made trivial…
on “Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy” ↗The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference" manuals were a set of books published by Addison-Wesley which detailed the Amiga operating system APIs, its data structures, purpose and architecture. Three editions were issued between 1985 and 1992. The complete…
on “Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)” ↗I used cursor with a mix of Gemini 3.1 and opus 4.6. It referenced the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, appendix C to create a boot block in assembly. It's a raw sector-mapped image, the build process creates a blank adf, which then writes everything at it's fixed offsets and we go back with another tool…
on “The curious case of retro demo scene graphics” ↗…discovery, and code. You felt like there were true discoveries to be made, whether it was through looking at source code found on UUCP, by finally understanding the purpose of some struct found in the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, or just experimenting with blitter or copper code. Despite (or perhaps because of) the depth of knowledge available, computing today feels stale; anything "new" is only new to you. A million people…
on “Amiga Screens: A Primer” ↗