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Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by codezero » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)
thedigitalcatonline.com

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by kencausey » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 3:22 AM UTC

This appears to link to all 8 parts: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/categories/amiga/

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by codezero » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 4:53 AM UTC

kencausey wrote: post #2

This appears to link to all 8 parts: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/categories/amiga/

Dang, I should have posted that one! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been planning a small Amiga 68000 assembly project and this series inspired me.

Edit: last year around this time I was planning a Commodore 64 6502 assembly project, and I didn’t follow through, so, yeah, that.

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by mrspeaker » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 5:30 AM UTC

codezero wrote: post #3

kencausey wrote: post #2

This appears to link to all 8 parts: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/categories/amiga/

Dang, I should have posted that one! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been planning a small Amiga 68000 assembly project and this series inspired me. Edit: last year around this time I was planning a Commodore 64 6502 assembly project, and I didn’t follow through, so, yeah, that.

I got into C64 6502 coding last year - had a pretty decent game prototype working (before had to relocate and life got in the way!). If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend the Twitch streamer "Shallan" (https://www.twitch.tv/shallan50k). All his old videos are on YouTube too, and tonnes of great info to get started and motivated.

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by codezero » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 5:45 AM UTC

mrspeaker wrote: post #4

codezero wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dang, I should have posted that one! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been planning a small Amiga 68000 assembly project and this series inspired me. Edit: last year around this time I was planning a Commodore 64 6502 assembly project, and I didn’t follow through, so, yeah, that.

I got into C64 6502 coding last year - had a pretty decent game prototype working (before had to relocate and life got in the way!). If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend the Twitch streamer "Shallan" ( https://www.twitch.tv/shallan50k ). All his old videos are on YouTube too, and tonnes of great info to get started and motivated.

Thanks so much for sharing this, I’ll get to the project eventually, I bet. :)

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by thedigicat » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 7:57 AM UTC

Thank you for sharing, guys. The next posts in the series have been in the works for a bit too long, this reminded me that I should keep writing =) Thanks!

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by unwind » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 8:44 AM UTC

thedigicat wrote: post #6

Thank you for sharing, guys. The next posts in the series have been in the works for a bit too long, this reminded me that I should keep writing =) Thanks!

Thank you, this was refreshingly deep and technical for a retro article. Straight to assembly in part 1 is nice! :)

As someone growing up coding MC68k assembly, I think I was still not aware of the existance of the "vasm" cross-assembler. That might push me to clean up and make buildable a really old game I wrote, that would give some nice closure. :) Thanks!

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by Lucretia9 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

I learnt m68k on an Amiga 500+ in a week, it's a decent assembly language which a lot of CPU manufacturers could learn a lot from.

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by bgr80 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 10:09 AM UTC

thedigicat wrote: post #6

Thank you for sharing, guys. The next posts in the series have been in the works for a bit too long, this reminded me that I should keep writing =) Thanks!

Just a heads up to the author. Your global Atom RSS feed seems to be broken. https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/atom.xml The one for retro is ok.

Re: Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

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Post by royjacobs » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC

mrspeaker wrote: post #4

codezero wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dang, I should have posted that one! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been planning a small Amiga 68000 assembly project and this series inspired me. Edit: last year around this time I was planning a Commodore 64 6502 assembly project, and I didn’t follow through, so, yeah, that.

I got into C64 6502 coding last year - had a pretty decent game prototype working (before had to relocate and life got in the way!). If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend the Twitch streamer "Shallan" ( https://www.twitch.tv/shallan50k ). All his old videos are on YouTube too, and tonnes of great info to get started and motivated.

I might as well plug my 6502 assembler MOS[1] again. It's written in Rust and comes with a full language server implementation that does things like full code formatting, refactoring support (go to symbol, renaming, etc) and if you're using the VICE emulator for the c64 it even integrates with the Visual Studio Code debugger.

[1] https://mos.datatra.sh