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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Assembly Language books
Message-ID: <2022@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 01:58:04 GMT
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> >I'd like people's opinions on Amiga assembly language books.  The two that
> >I know of are _Amiga Machine Language_ published by Abacus and 
> >_Amiga Machine Language Programming Guide_ published by Compute.
> 
> 	I'm not sure about the Compute book, but keep away from the Abacus
> book!!!!!!!!! First off, the author runs, no, flys through the instruction
> set like a bat-out-of-hell -- strike one. Next, almost every single example
> goes straight to the hardware (I wonder what country this book was written
> in? :> ) -- strike two. And last, but FAR from least, the english translation
> of this book (translated from German, evidently) was probably done by the
> German author;that is, it's 100% broken, hard to read english the whole way
> through. So, as any old home-town ump might say, "Strike three -- your outta
> there!"

Strike 4 coming up. This book is somewhat specific, in that it uses the
Assempro assembler as a base from which to explain things and give examples.
Assempro, in case you didn't know, is a toy assembler without linker, and
with includes that are non-standard (names changed to protect the ???).

Jake Commander's book from TAB isn't too bad, though it falls down somewhat
in the examples area, having really only one example, a calculator.
The Compute! book is really pretty good, and will get the novice going.

-larry

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