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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: frustration, frustration..
Message-ID: <2660@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 87 18:38:13 GMT
References: <2166@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 37
Summary: need'nt be

In article <2166@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:
>Is there anyone out there that programs in assembly on the Amiga
>or am I just looking in the wrong places? And most importantly,
>could Mark Riley be persuaded to post some of his asm code to
>public? (hint, hint)


Why would you want to ?

Write your algorithm in C, compile it, then look at the assembly output
the compiler spat out. Dont like it ? Change the C source, recompile it.

After a while you get to know what your compiler does, and how your CPU
works.

C ends up being shorthand for machine language, just like god and
dennis ritchie intended it to be. :-)

Usually on 2 - 10% of your code needs to be REAL fast, and its a lot easier
to code that in assembly than the whole thing.

(what are you doing on pro-charlotte ? Try pnet, and ask leo about plotting
pixels :-)


While I'm at it, this is for JBF@pro-charlotte:

The correct screen size to use in Dpaint II to work right with the canon
printer is 640x770 LM 1, RM 89. This gives you a 1 to 1 mapping between
screen and printer pixels.

That'll be a dollar, please. Mail it to greg@gryphon. This aint free ya know :-)

-- 
          "Well, they say that Santa Fe is less than 90 miles away"

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