Beginning Amiga Assembly Tutorial(s)

[Curbie]

I’m way more interested in the Amiga hardware side as opposed to the MC68000 side in which I have some experience in. All hardware seems to be kind of a chicken and egg thing, I.E. a tutorial needs to define (or reference definitions for) terms before using them.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Curbie

[Nightfox]

The Amiga Hardware Reference manual is the bible you need

[kriz]

Check it out: http://amigadev.elowar.com/

[redblade]

Originally Posted by Curbie

I’m way more interested in the Amiga hardware side as opposed to the MC68000 side in which I have some experience in. All hardware seems to be kind of a chicken and egg thing, I.E. a tutorial needs to define (or reference definitions for) terms before using them.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Curbie

Tutorials using OS friendly functions that sets up BitMaps, Rastports, OpenFont(), BltBitMap()

or Tutorials which hit the hardware directly with a copperlist and feeding data directly to the Blitter?

[Curbie]

Originally Posted by redblade

Tutorials using OS friendly functions that sets up BitMaps, Rastports, OpenFont(), BltBitMap()

or Tutorials which hit the hardware directly with a copperlist and feeding data directly to the Blitter?

Beginning Amiga Assembly Tutorial(s), ones that define what BitMaps, Rastports, are before using them, for example, are bitmaps on Amigas and Alpha Micros the same things?

[Curbie]

Thanks Nightfox, tracked it down on the internet this morning.

[kamelito]

Originally Posted by redblade

Tutorials using OS friendly functions that sets up BitMaps, Rastports, OpenFont(), BltBitMap()

or Tutorials which hit the hardware directly with a copperlist and feeding data directly to the Blitter?

Is there tutorials to program the Amiga in ASM using system calls like AllocBimap double buffering etc ? (V39)

[redblade]

Originally Posted by kamelito

Is there tutorials to program the Amiga in ASM using system calls like AllocBimap double buffering etc ? (V39)

Yes. On Aminet download tmapdemo.lha and aaboing. They are by Chris Green/Commodore, AABoing is in C tho :/ (I thought it was in ASM)

Originally Posted by Curbie

Beginning Amiga Assembly Tutorial(s), ones that define what BitMaps, Rastports, are before using them, for example, are bitmaps on Amigas and Alpha Micros the same things?

Amiga Computing Issue 39, August 1991 has some machine code on the disk.

I have attached them. (You need the official includes though) Pic is of the program, it uses the blitter to blit the teddybear and the direction as controlled by the joystick.

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[kamelito]

Great thanks, I’m going to try this tonight.

[kamelito]

@Redblade do you know if there’s any other articles from Margaret Stanger? I found only one in Amiga Computing 42 about saving score.

[redblade]

I uploaded it to the zone, I was meaning to upload it to the ftp but I need to get my account working. Thanks to the scanner and uploader to archive.org

1991 04 DOS: Introduction Read File
1991 05 Intuition: Open Window
1991 06 Graphics: Viewports Introduction
1991 07 Hardware: Reading Joystick
1991 08 Graphics: Blitter 01
1991 09 Graphics: Blitter 02
1991 10 Random Number Routines
1991 11 Score Points
1991 12 Hardware: Copper List
1992 01 Audio 01
1992 02 Audio 02
1992 03 Audio 03
1992 04 Audio 04

[kamelito]

Thanks a mil, really appreciated.

[Emufr3ak]

That’s the one I used to learn coding in ASM in the Amiga. http://corsodiassembler.ramjam.it Even after a google translate it was still the best course I could find.

[Antiriad_UK]

Originally Posted by Emufr3ak

That’s the one I used to learn coding in ASM in the Amiga. http://corsodiassembler.ramjam.it Even after a google translate it was still the best course I could find.

Just had a skim through that on google translate. Some nice stuff in there about optimising code/using LUTs.

[kamelito]

English for this book would have been great.

[Nightshft]

Originally Posted by Emufr3ak

That’s the one I used to learn coding in ASM in the Amiga. http://corsodiassembler.ramjam.it Even after a google translate it was still the best course I could find.

I didnt know this course exists as a pdf. Some time ago I found an .lha with the content of disk1, translated to german. Sadly only disk 1 has been translated.

Thats a very nice pdf! And 1870 pages in italian, wow. Now we need a volunteer to translate it