Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!ileaf!io!carlos
From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Good book on 68000 assembly?
Message-ID: <568@io.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 23:29:46 GMT
References: <17802@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
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Keywords: Advice on 68000 assembly book needed.
Summary: Motorola is Bible, Osborne 68000 book is good.

In article <17802@watmath.waterloo.edu> drpwilliams@watmath.waterloo.edu (Don R. P. Williams) writes:
>	Any of you 68000 assembly Gurus out there have a favorite
>book on the subject?
>	I want to learn Amiga assembly language (68000) and would
>appreciate any advice from the net.  I know 6502 and 6809 assembly
>language so I guess I'm not a complete idiot, but I know virtually 
>nothing about the 68000.
>Thanks,
>	Don.

If you already know 6502 assembler you can probably get by with the Motorola
68000 User's Manual, since you will be familiar with most of the concepts. The
68000 has a pretty nice instruction set and should be easy to pick up from
just this book.

However, the Osborne/McGraw-Hill 68000 Assembly Language Programming book,
Second Edition (includes 68010 & 68020) by Leventhal, Hawkins, Kane and Cramer
is an excellent book. It has good explanations of concepts like I/O, 
arithmetic, interrupts etc. It includes descriptions of the instruction sets
for the processors of course. It also includes short code samples to 
demonstrate various operations. You would probably find it useful. Oh, it
sells for about $20.

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