05 August 2020, 11:31 | #21 |
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A small word of caution about the Bullfrog tutorial. It is a useful starting point, but IIRC it is not particularly good at explaining the Amiga graphics hardware. The examples I saw did not use the Blitter or Sprites and drawing using the CPU is very slow in comparison.
It also may not explain well how to code in a world with many different Amiga models (code that works fine on an A500 might easily fail on an A1200 unless you take some care), but I can't remember if they touched on that. |
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I'm not really interested in the A1200 anyway as the A600 was always my machine of choice. |
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05 August 2020, 13:24 | #23 |
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Actually, how hard would it be to tweak these tutorials to include the stuff you mentioned?
It's the first time I've looked at something like this and felt like I understood it, so to keep it within that context, but fill in any gaps would be really cool. |
05 August 2020, 14:14 | #24 |
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Good question. There are several tutorials on using the Amiga hardware, I'd say the one that helped me the most was Photon of Scoopex's YouTube tutorials (
[ Show youtube player ]). They're quite long, but he goes over pretty much all of the graphics stuff in quite some detail.
As for programming to work on most/all Amiga's, there's a bunch of things to keep in mind. Some of the more important things (IMHO) are:
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05 August 2020, 16:04 | #25 | |
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All that is a little advanced for me, but I'll definitely refer back to it as needed. That's a good call about Photon! I'm sure I started his course a few years back, but I got lost as I had virtually no experience in any sort of programming. I've got some GML, Amos, and even Z80 Assembly under my belt now, so that will definitely be worth a shot. |
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07 July 2022, 15:56 | #26 |
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Sadly Earok's BB videos are no more.. however the Blitz Basic tutorial files are still available:
http://earok.net/games/earokbbtutorial.zip |
08 July 2022, 19:05 | #27 |
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Earok videos are no more but Daedalus streams are here to stay hopefully...
Blitz Basic Streams |
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