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From: bernie.hellreich@canremote.uucp (BERNIE HELLREICH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Development ??
Message-ID: <89102304302987@masnet.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 89 10:59:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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I'm not a programmer, but I was on the development team of Dragon's Lair
for the Amiga (animation artist).  Generally if you want to reach the 
largest possible market (and still have a powerful program) it should be
geard to a standard Amiga with 1 mb of ram.  That's typical of most 
Amiga's.  A handy development tool would be, as always, a hard-drive.  
If it's a "protected" program like a game than from what I gather, books
won't help you on the disk protection, the only way to learn that stuff 
is talking to other amiga programmers.   As far as development goes, the
"easiest" transportable language to work on would be 'C', either lattice
or Manx.  If it's a mahcine language program most of the guys use SEKA 
assembler.  Hope this helps.  Of course you should get all the AMIGA 
Reference manuals from Commadore to read up on some of the custom chip 
stuff (pretty extensive hardware stuff), and the intuition interface if 
you want it to multi-task with other programs.
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