Amiga Machine Code Course

Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by metroholografix on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:13AM (#22700392)

Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop. I spent the best years of my life with the Amiga and I wish I could do it all over again..

Later, I moved on to doing realtime graphics in DOS, first with Turbo Pascal and inline assembly (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials) and eventually C and although I have fond memories of that period too, the Amiga will always remain supremely vivid in my memory. Utterly unforgettable.

The meaning of life is to become a legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziQBWQxvok

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by bitwize on Friday March 27, 2020 @02:57AM (#22700878)

> Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop.

I am just starting to understand this feeling -- both with a real Amiga 500 and with UAE on my "Pimiga" -- and oh, man. There really is nothing like it, aside from maybe programming a Lisp Machine.

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by pjmlp on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:20AM (#22700951)

Similar experience.

I was sadden to have gotten a 386SX instead of an Amiga, like everyone else on the group, in retrospective my parents were right in sponsoring a PC acquisition instead of the Amiga.

However our "demoscene" gang used to spend weekend, mostly saturdays, where the Amiga owners would bring their computers into someone's place.

Then we would have a mix of ProTracker or Assembly coding sessions, and some gaming to relax as well.

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by tralarpa on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:56AM (#22701833)

I kept using my Amiga(s) as my main computer as long as possible, then switched to Windows NT and OpenGL. Very happy to have skipped the HIMEM/extender/etc. nightmare on MSDOS :)

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by zprunger on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:58AM (#22702480)

> (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials)

oh man I read those as well! Nostalgia overload right now.

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by smabie on Friday March 27, 2020 @02:26AM (#22700786)

Did you make that? Pretty sick!

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Re:Amiga Machine Code Course by metroholografix on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:58AM (#22702848)

Kefrens did.

It's one of the best Amiga demos ever made running on a machine with a 7MHz CPU and 1MB of RAM.

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