Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!kim
From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Assembly Language Programming on the Amiga.
Message-ID: <20107@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: 29 Dec 87 08:01:57 GMT
References: <8712261923.AA04694@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Summary: another book on the subject

In article <8712261923.AA04694@jade.berkeley.edu>, CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
> Is this true??? I saw a mention of it in C.S.A. about 3-4 days ago...
> as in a whole book on assy programming on amy??
>
> I want this book...... i want it BAD!!!!!!!
> Please someone inform me via mail or by posting where to get it.
> I don't care how much... i just want it....

Doug Leavitt has mentioned the book he co-authored (I haven't run across it
yet, but will be looking).  There is another one that I know of.  It's
called:

        "Amiga Assembly Language Programming"
         Jake Commander
         TAB Books
         ISBN 0-8306-2711-1
         $13.95

I got a copy a while back from Abel Supply at a small discount.  I was
disappointed when I open the box and saw the book was from TAB ... but
was pleasantly surprised after leafing thru it (I guess even TAB can do
something positive, once in awhile :-) ).

Anyway, it covers the 68000 architecture and instruction set in the first
third of the book, with the rest covering the Amiga environment, etc.  The
final example (about 40 pages of code) is a "programmer's calculator" that
handles bin/oct/dec/hex, uses windows, gadgets, and so forth.

I hope Doug's book has a bit more "depth" to it, but for the price, Jake's
book isn't too bad for an intro.

Nice to see greater interest in using assembly language starting to
blossom ...


No, I don't get a kickback from Jake ... don't know him ... and have nothing
to do with TAB Books (and wouldn't admit to it if I did)!  And I don't do
business with Abel anymore.

/kim


P.S.  Those of you who are inclined to flame about assembly language, and
      programming in it, are invited to send me email.  I am really sick
      and tired of all the flamage here lately, and do NOT want to see YAW
      [Yet Another War] start up over this issue (again).  Thank you!


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