Amiga Assembly – book on 68000 programming on the Commodore Amiga 500

Amiga Assembly – 68000 programming on the Commodore Amiga 500

Amiga Assembly is a comprehensive technical book in English about assembly programming of the Motorola 68000 processor on the Commodore Amiga 500 computer. The author leads the reader from the basics of the architecture, through working with the Copper and Blitter coprocessors, to building a complete game and a demo. The manual has 815 pages and is published in print.

Contents

• introduction to 68000 machine code and memory organization shared between the chips,
• programming directly on the hardware, without an operating system,
• using the Copper and the Blitter, the chips responsible for graphics,
• a full example of a game and a demo that you can analyze step by step.

Who it is for

The book is aimed at retro computer enthusiasts, programmers and people creating for the demoscene. It requires knowledge of programming basics, and an emulator or a real Amiga computer is useful when working through it.

Details

• language: English,
• number of pages: 815,
• format: print edition, dimensions approx. 19 x 25 cm,
• weight: approx. 1.8 kg,
• publisher: Independently published.

It is a solid source of knowledge for anyone who wants to understand how programs and games worked on the Amiga, and literature on this subject is hard to find today. The book is a good addition to the collection of anyone interested in computer history.