Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!bula!bjornk From: bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: More assembly questions Message-ID: <7417@bula.se> Date: 30 May 90 08:11:16 GMT References: <1990May17.072036.11335@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <23257@uflorida.cis.uf Sender: rnews@bula.se Reply-To: Bjorn Knutsson Distribution: comp Organization: Bjorn's Amiga, Sweden Lines: 31 In article mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes: [...] > BTW without Harware Reference Manual you will have big trouble with blitter, >copper and bitplanes. If you want to make utilities (I find it boring but it's >great that some people makes 'em :-) you almost certainly have to buy RKM's >and in most cases DOS manual (DOS Manual BTW has some info on assemlers (ASM& >ALINK)) too. Sounds lot of buying and it is! Regardless of what you do, you should have the RKM's. Just because you're not making "boring utilities" doesn't mean you should disregard the guidelines given for programming the Amiga. If more game programmers followed the guidelines I'd be buying more games. I just can't justify paying a lot of money for a program that treats my Amiga as a souped up C64. I didn't buy this machine for the (back then) fancy graphics and sound. I bought it because it had a multitasking operating system. I have never been interested in graphics as such. High resolution is, for me, just a way of stuffing more data on one screen. I don't care about colors. My default preferences are a black background and three shades of gray. >-- >Mikko "Assembler rules OK!" Tsokkinen >Internet mt87692@tut.fi : UUCP tut!mt87692 : Bitnet mt87692@fintut --- Bjorn Knutsson / USENET: bjornk@bula.se or sunic!sics!bula!bjornk Stangholmsbacken 44 / Phone : +46-8-710 7223 S-127 40 SKARHOLMEN / "Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the S W E D E N / blink again." -- Marvin The Paranoid Android