So, let's see if there is any real interest in tutorials about coding the Amiga - the old way.

Assembled with ASM-ONE v1.20 and only tested on WinUAE at the moment.

The first code is about "copperbars", nothing really fancy, but I have to start somewhere, and nothing is more Amiga than copperbars.


The site: vikke.net


Many other codesnippets are planned, if people are interested in reading such things.

It is possible to download an LHA-package with all files (asm source, executable and resources)

Any questions regarding the code, or related things?

@Vikke

This is very cool. I will be checking this out in the week. Thanks!

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@Vikke

This is great!

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So, let's see if there is any real interest in tutorials about coding the Amiga - the old way.

The old way - the better way. At least these software is fast and efficiently use computer's resources. If today programists code in asembler (or at least optimize it) the software would run at astronomic speed - this is especially related to recent Amiga software

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@Vikke

thanks ! I am no coder at all, user only but appreciate the effort !

@vikke

Sweet! Maybe you should enable comments on the articles so that people can ask questions?

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@Vikke

Hey ! Very very good initiative !
I'll be reading the tutorials with great interest, since I'm back to asm coding through Winuae too !
By the way, it would have been nice to have the entire source codes, from libraries openings, to screen setup..... even if it takes a little more space, it's sometimes very useful for beginners !

Keep on the good work dude !

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@Sodapop

You mean that the whole source would be shown on the website? Now it is downloadable in the LHA-package.

I can do that, but first I have to set up a HTML cleaner for the code that Sublime Text 2 exports. ST2 doesnt use CSS classes for the coloring of the syntax, but rather inline styles like style="bla bla bla", and this makes the HTML very large. I tested the output of about 440 rows of assembly ==> almost 500kB.

@Vikke

I guess the opening of window/ screens isnt needed in general except in the downloadable sources since it will take up alot of space.

But it would be good to have one lesson showing how you open and shut down screens etc before diving into the actual code in the mainloop. Not sure if that made sense

Btw; very nice website and initiative, im going to setup my a1200 AND amiga forever+amikit to follow this tutorial.

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Commenting will be opened up later today.

@Overflow

I can do a very simple tutorial for starting a program and exiting it.
This part will for the most part be the same in all coming tutorials, so it would be good to go through it once and not having to bother about it later on.

@Vikke

I would like to see PPC ASM coding as well and also see more demos

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Thumbs up for PPC and Demos

@elwood

Somebody else have to start a PPC assembly tutorial as I have never done any coding on a PPC. I don't think it would be particularly hard to learn to write code for the PPC, but then you really should use library-calls for everything to get the code standards compilant for AmigaOS. And knowing the libraries is a bigger task than learning to write assembly for a PPC.

Here, once again, if it would have been possible to get AmigaOS on the PS3, then I would probably today be coding on that instead. There is something fascinating with the CELL architecture, not to the same degree as the OSC on the Amiga, but a lot more than just any other CPU.

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elwood wrote: @Vikke I would like to see PPC ASM coding as well and also see more demos

The first 68k tutorial:

"... and that's all you need to know to program the 68k and the Amiga chipset."

The first PPC tutorial:

"... and that concludes the list of PPC instruction variations and their acronyms. In the next tutorial we will learn how to align reads and writes, pre-fetch data and explain how to use branches and loops with the use of the condition register, link register and count register."

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Vikke wrote: Here, once again, if it would have been possible to get AmigaOS on the PS3, then I would probably today be coding on that instead. There is something fascinating with the CELL architecture, not to the same degree as the OSC on the Amiga, but a lot more than just any other CPU.

Yea, AmigaOS 4 on the PS3 was the one chance they had to get me to try PPC programming. Everything interesting and innovative seems to get shut down by politics and big money. It sounds odd but the AmigaOS classic and the 68k is all about freedom.

@Vikke

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Vikke wrote: You mean that the whole source would be shown on the website? Now it is downloadable in the LHA-package

Actually I meant it would have been nice to have the entire source inside the tutorial page, and not only as dowloadable file. I think that each line of an ASM program is important for a beginner, not only the main parts, so it could be interesting to include them as well.
But I understand it requires space ans efforts...

I'm really looking forward to reading the next chapters !
Thanks once again !

Vikke,
You have a good idea, continue what you have started, just like you wanted to ;)
Thank you.

Regards,
AmiDARK

@Vikke

Is there anyone who can help me with getting on the ADA forum? I have registered and can log in, but not to the forums and I'm not shown as latest user on the site. My username there is the same as here: vikke

The next tutorial will be published within a few days. The code is ready, but I have to make some text for it as well.

I will also make an update to the first tutorial, I will include the whole source on the page, as I have made some modification to the generated HTML 500kB => 150kB for about 1000 lines.

@Vikke

I remember the site owner had problems with spambots that kept flooding his forum, so he disabled registering.

I guess best way around that would be to email him to manually register you.
Hes quite active and friendly, so wont be much of a problem. Additionally he reads this thread too.

@Vikke

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I will also make an update to the first tutorial, I will include the whole source on the page

Hey ! Fantastic news ! Glad to read this, thank you very much !
I can't wait to have a look at the next chapters !!!
Great effort dude !