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SKYWIZE'S ASSEMBLER SCHOOL!
Part One
Hi and welcome to the first part of the
assembler school running in this mag.
First of all a little presentation,
I'm Skywize of Digital Technology and
I will to the best of my ability try to
guide you through the hazards of Amiga
assembly language. Then I must clarify
some points regarding this school. To
have any real use of. this school you
must have at least a rudimentary
knowledge of the Motorola 68000 chip,
this knowledge is easily obtained from
one of several good books on the
subject of 68000 assembly language. The
reason for this is that it would take a
hell of a time to learn out the
architecture, the commands and syntax
of the 68000, not mentioning that it
would be quite boring. As I said, you
can learn all this by yourself since
there is books on the subject. I will
concentrate on 68000 assembly language
on the Amiga, since books concerning
this is very scarce indeed, and those
existing aren't particulary good. I
intend to mainly touch upon the 'fun'
part of Amiga assembly, the handling of
colour, graphics, sound and so on.So no
serious hardcore utility programming
will be mentioned.So, after this little
speech, what will we do know? I will be
using the Seka assembler in all my
examples since this is the most
spreaded assembler around, and a good,
fast one as well (I know many people do
not share my opinion on this, but screw
them.)Also you will most certanily need
a copy of the Hardware reference manual
since it's compeletely necessary if you
are to understand things. You will not
need any other reference manuals since
I will try to avoid the operating
system as much as possible and
concentrate on the hardware, if any of
you don't agree you might as well press
the magic three right now. So, with a
newly copied Seka assmebler and a brand
new copy of the hardware manual we
boldly set off to explore the depths of
Amiga assembler? Well, no not quite,not
in this first part of the school anyway
First I will write a little something
about the Amiga architecture and
explain the commands and syntax of the
Seka assembler.In the next issue starts
the funny things. So let's go..........