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Re:The Amiga Boing Ball Explained by vardump on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:09PM (#12332755)
I'd guess BCPL. Most early Amiga software was written in it.
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Re:The Amiga Boing Ball Explained by spc476 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:42PM (#12332858)
Only the file system portion (dos.library) was written in BCPL (ported from TRIPOS in two or three weeks). The kernel (exec.library) was in assembly, and the GUI (intuition.library) was written in C.
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Re:The Amiga Boing Ball Explained by vardump on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:48PM (#12332877)
Well, whatever it was, it just needed to compute ball velocity, set a few values in a copper list and start audio DMA on collision.

Any compiled language would have been good enough.

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