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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Technical papers from Commodore?
Message-ID: <19527@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 16:41:43 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <13395@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer) writes:

> Does anyone know of any technical papers on the Amiga custom chips
>(a white-box viewpoint)? 

The best treatment of the custom chips that I can think of offhand is in the
Amiga Hardware manual.  It's probably not just what you're looking for.  I
don't recall what else might be around.  Perhaps some of the early magazine
writeups of the A1000 would have a more succinct technical writeup.

> Also, are there any papers on the system architecture design?

>If there are any recent ones on the 3000, new chips that would be 
>preferable.

There is a reasonably amount of A3000 system architecture discussed in the 
last set of Developer's Conference notes, from last June's DevCon in Atlanta.
Greg Berlin did a paper on A3000 system architecture, which covered the 
basics of the A3000 system-level chips (Amber, Buster, DMAC, Gary, Ramsey).
Scott Schaeffer did a writeup on the A3000 Coprocessor interface, and I 
presented the latest (at the time) version of the Zorro III Bus Specification. 

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