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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AMIGA ASSEMBLER???
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 00:30:32 GMT
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- >HELLO EVERYBODY, I HAVE JUST STARTED TO LEARN 68000 ASSEMLBY ON MY
- >AMIGA 1200, WITH THE AIM TO CODE DEMOS AND GAMES. BUT I AM ASKING
- >MYSELF IS IT WORTH IT???? APART FROM THE DEDICATED GUYS/GALS ON THIS
- >NOTICE BOARD, NOTHING MUCH SEEMS TO HAPPENING ON THE AMIGA
- >FRONT......IF I AM MISLED THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FLAME AT
- >WILL......SO SHALL I CARRY ON OR GIVE UP?????
- >HARLY QUIN
- Well it's hard to say. If you a just starting out completely from scratch
- it's probably too late except for hacking stuff just for fun on your own
- machine. Even if you are quick to learn you probably couldn't finish more than
- one game or a few demos by the time the MC680x0 get relegated to the
- dustbin. It all depends on how long people keep an active interest in the
- older model Amigas. Also Escom stupidly cancelled all Amiga hardware
- architecture from future "Amigas" possibly driving many people away even
- quicker (although some might hang-on to their old MC680x0 ones for some time
- before going for IBM and in the mean time might provide a base for your games
- and demos). Of course learning MC680x0 assembler would improve your general
- programming skills and make PPC easier (I'm not sure what PPC assembler is
- like, it might be one of those RISC chips that has such obnoxious assembler
- that your better off with 'C' even for most realtime stuff). Learning about
- custom chips likely won't of much use for future Amigas thanks to Escom. Still
- it may be your last chance to have sort of fun, thanks once again to Escom.
- Some jobs also look upon that sort of experience favorably. Someone has to
- code the advanced chips used in the navy or for cellular phones, etc.
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