Devpac manual anyone? [Archive] - English Amiga Board

polbit

06 January 2007, 16:21

Hi everybody, My first post here... I recently have dug up one of my A2000s because I got the urge to do some Asm programming. It's been years since I touched it, and I can't find any books anymore. Even have the original DevPac disks, and Amiga Developer CD 2.1, but I would really like to get my hands on the DevPac manual, and possibly HiSoft C++ manual. Can anyone point me to where I can download it from, or put it in the Zone? Thanks!! PolBit

Photon

07 January 2007, 03:21

Welcome! :)

Nice to see a fellow coder joining up... can't help you with the manuals though, since I prefer Asm-One myself 8)

polbit

10 January 2007, 23:02

Really, nobody has an on-line copy, or that extra paper copy that they want to get rid of? :)

girv

11 January 2007, 00:13

I have a paper copy, but I'd like to keep it :)

Photon

22 January 2007, 16:59

Yeah, funny that no-one has scanned it. Then again, I would never do such a time-consuming thing :)

dlfrsilver

22 January 2007, 17:31

the book is more than 253 pages !! ouch !

girv

22 January 2007, 17:36

If anyone can be bothered to scan it, I might be persuaded to temporarily part with mine...

coze

22 January 2007, 17:41

I can scan it during my spring holiday (after 12th feb.) but would you send it to Japan ?

bobbybearing

22 January 2007, 20:25

what about the disk "Devpac Amiga Doc (1988)(Fingers-Solo)" ?
http://hipooniosamigasite.ath.cx/hipoonios/modules/content/?id=104

edit: it's a ProWrite version. Text version here (http://cyberpingui.free.fr/dl.php?id=557)

polbit

22 January 2007, 23:15

If I remember correctly, the manual has a spiral bound on it, that can be easily removed to scan it. I have a high-speed scanner at work that, if the manual is in fact easly taken apart, I wouldn't might scanning.

I'm suprised too that the manual has not been scanned so far. I found the Atari ST version, and there is the old version mentioned above, but nothing for 3.0+...

Polbit

girv

23 January 2007, 13:08

Jherek Carnelia

26 January 2007, 22:23

I'll do it if you like. I have a colour scanner at work that will do double-sided copy no probs. BUT, if I take it apart, I have no way of putting it back together...
We have a comb binder that can cope with the plastic combs, not with the metal ones. Up to you. PM me if you want to go ahead (I don't visit very often though, 2 or 3 times a week).

polbit

27 January 2007, 16:33

I'm all for it!! :D

musashi5150

28 January 2007, 01:29

I know some folks love completeness - but Devpac isn't the most complicated of assemblers. You'd only need the manual for MonAm (debugger) and even then I'm sure someone here would write out the key combinations if they were asked nicely...

Photon

29 January 2007, 18:55

The manual I have is spiral bound and is for the Amiga version 3. I'd prefer to send it to someone in the UK, if anywhere, as there's less risk of it going astray in the postal system. Any UK volunteers?
That's a popular myth. I've sent and received about 30 packages all over the globe over the last two years, regular airmail and a few surface mail packages, and 0 have 'gone astray'.

But I understand if you wouldn't take even a very small risk with your book, if you value it.

Dizzy

29 January 2007, 19:18

hmm wonder if this doc our Moderator got is usefull

http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10270&sid=d98b424b0fd2a7beaacdc3fe6734aa6e

Devpac Amiga Doc (1988)(Fingers - Solo).zip 275 KB

or you can find DevPac2 in LSDDoc 05 (http://amiga.emucamp.com/lsd5.htm)

:D

bippym

29 January 2007, 20:17

No that is for devpac1

Dizzy

29 January 2007, 20:24

it might be better than nothing ;)

Dizzy

29 January 2007, 20:28

well you can find the DevPac 2 manual here (http://redump.emubase.de/lsd_view.php?id=376) as a txt file (from LSDDoc5) :D

girv

05 February 2007, 10:27

That's a popular myth. I've sent and received about 30 packages all over the globe over the last two years, regular airmail and a few surface mail packages, and 0 have 'gone astray'.

It's no myth mate, I'm afraid :sad

I buy and sell things on eBay all the time and have been doing so on other auction and classified sites even before eBay for maybe 10 years now. I lose about 1% of my parcels in the UK post. Right now I have a DVD player that I sold on eBay (to a UK buyer) that has gone AWOL; Royal Mail have no clue where it is and won't even start looking until it's been lost for 4 weeks :banghead

So you will understand my reluctance :)

Photon

05 February 2007, 14:49

Ah, Royal Mail. Funny, the stuff I ordered from the UK has arrived correctly. Perhaps luck. 1%? That-is-a-lot, argh.

girv

05 February 2007, 14:55

Hmm ... I've never lost an international parcel :) Perhaps it's because Royal Mail don't have jurisdiction of it for long before they pass it on to a foreign carrier ;)

coze

05 February 2007, 15:55

I'd prefer to send it to someone in the UK, if anywhere, as there's less risk of it going astray in the postal system. Any UK volunteers?

Hmm ... I've never lost an international parcel :) Perhaps it's because Royal Mail don't have jurisdiction of it for long before they pass it on to a foreign carrier ;)

Contradictions, contradictions ... :laughing

girv

05 February 2007, 22:56

@coze: haha yeah :) But see the "Hmm" ? I just realised that fact ;)

bippym

03 April 2007, 19:58

if anyone is interested there is a boxed copy of devpac3 on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amiga-Devpac-3-Assembly-programming-software-boxed_W0QQitemZ270105593341QQcategoryZ98929QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I will delete this post in 5 days after auction end

Ultron

03 April 2007, 20:16

Royal Mail

God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming

No future for your postal parcels! :laughing

Anubis

04 April 2007, 12:40

coze

04 April 2007, 12:50

ok guys. if you be kind and leave this auction to me, I promise to scan the manual and upload it in two weeks ...

bippym

04 April 2007, 13:07

OMG!!!

You're breaking THE rules!!! :shocked :crazy :cheese

yup, but i have posted i'm going to delete the post when the auction is over!

I figured this was quite important :D

ok guys. if you be kind and leave this auction to me, I promise to scan the manual and upload it in two weeks ...

I presume you are going to scan all the other literature that will come with it too. I personally don't mind as I already own a boxed copy :D

coze

04 April 2007, 13:15

Yeah, well what else is there inside ? I don't think a very big manual will fit in that box. I'm planning to scan about 40-50 pages a day so ... it's just a matter of time ...

bippym

04 April 2007, 13:18

Well my copy isn't here right now but there are a couple of other bits I think (can't remember off hand).

There are probably a couple hundred pages in the manual, it is quite thick. There is the pocket book too, but that isn't worth scanning as all info can be found on net in pdf format :D

coze

07 April 2007, 15:59

Gotcha ! :D

Thanks bippym for the heads up :great

demoniac

09 April 2007, 21:34

IIRC, the manual is in a spiral binding.

coze

17 April 2007, 14:09

WOW ! I got it today, it was fast ! Now I must keep my promise so I have till 1st of may ...

Anding

06 November 2008, 15:33

Did the scanned manual for Devpac 3 make it online in the end ;-)

Would love to find a copy ;)

coze

06 November 2008, 16:27

LOL :) broken promises ... I'm sure I found it somewhere online so didn't scan it myself, but can't find it now ...

Jherek Carnelia

06 November 2008, 18:59

I have scanned and OCR'd the thing, I'm just going through it and adding some screen grabs. Should be available next week...

Anding

07 November 2008, 03:26

That is great news! (an early :xmas present) Thank you for your effort!

Is there any chance you might also post up a PDF of the straight scans? (I find that is sometimes the easiest way to print out and put in a binding)

coze

07 November 2008, 16:45

Devpac manual zoned for anding. This is just a txt file though, Jherek's OCR would be much better a read, but it's something :) It was in an LSD disk I think.

Jherek Carnelia

07 November 2008, 18:05

@ Anding, The original pdf is 130 mb and it's not that good looking anyway.

I posted a taster the other day in this thread (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=3696), I think that you'll find it's ok to print and make a book from...

(I don't seem to be able to make the link thingy work :D 0

Anding

08 November 2008, 00:05

Coze, Thanks very much indeed!

Jherek, That is a beautifully produced sample chapter! :) I had no idea you were reformatting the book, etc, when you mentioned OCR. Looking forward to it!

Jherek Carnelia

08 November 2008, 20:02

Well it's done - hope someone finds it useful, it was a lot of work:D.

I don't think that it contains any errors, but if someone finds any, just let me know.

t0ne

09 November 2008, 13:18

Nice one, looks like you did a really good job on it. Thanks :)

AmigaFriend

09 November 2008, 14:08

Nice one, looks like you did a really good job on it. Thanks :)

Yes indeed. :agree Thanks!

Anding

09 November 2008, 15:08

Me too - much appreciated :)

pmc

10 November 2008, 08:58

@ Jherek Carnelia - nice. :great

Jherek Carnelia

10 November 2008, 19:52

Glad you like it people.

The book covers Devpac v 3.00 - the changes that they introduced for v 3.18 are not detailed (see my other thread: I've since learnt that HiSoft never wrote an updated manual), I'll work on the changes, but it'll probably take some time!

EvilCensor

13 November 2008, 14:01

Thanks for the manual it's appreciated.

AlfaRomeo

10 January 2009, 21:57

Great work in DevPac 3 manual dude :)

AEV

11 January 2009, 20:15

Just checked out this thread and the DevPac 3 PDF and I have to say this was excellent work Jherek.:bowdown

Herpes

12 February 2009, 19:50

Also wanted to say thanks - that must have been a hell of a work :great BTW great quality!

cosmiq

24 February 2009, 15:59

Very much appreciated indeed!! :-D

vein

24 February 2009, 20:07

Well it's done - hope someone finds it useful, it was a lot of work:D.

I don't think that it contains any errors, but if someone finds any, just let me know.

Thx you very much.
I'm gonna take a look at my old asm sources now that the Amiga 1200 "new old stock" has been shipped from Amigakit.eu :)

jmparis

27 February 2009, 00:12

Hi Jherek, Just "Thanks.L" for work ! :bowdown

Pyromania

27 February 2009, 04:39

Well it's done - hope someone finds it useful, it was a lot of work:D.

I don't think that it contains any errors, but if someone finds any, just let me know.

Awesome work, thanks for doing the scanning.