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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Good book on 68000 assembly?
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Date: 26 Mar 88 05:15:56 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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Keywords: Advice on 68000 assembly book needed.

>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

I didn't find the Moto book too long on explaining the different addressing
modes.  But, it *is* the bible.  Are they on their Fifth edition now?

>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's the book I used to learn 68K (with Moto book handy).  Note you
really have to *read* it, as there are some bugs and typos in the
book, like the bottom of p.38.  But it's easy to spot these, just
think about what you're reading.

[sorta like the PAL article in Amazing Computing :-) ]

I also have the Williams book by Sybex; I don't like it too much for
an intro to 68K as it tends to be one of the assembler template books.
So is the Osborne/MH book, but it's a lot better hidden.

..Bob
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