I learned it from books. There was particular one book that was really thick, unfortunately I can‘t remember the title, that contained lots of detailed information about memory management, interrupts and so on.
I remember my parents bought me a red book about the „AmigaDOS“ even before the Amiga computer, and I flipped through it. Then, on one page, I found the command „say sth“.
You could type in words and a robot voice would read them aloud. I remember how excited I was, it was unbelievable for me. Probably the moment I decided I wanted to program the Amiga.
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Nice! I actually had the opposite experience with a Commodore 64, copying BASIC programs out of a book and giving up when they didn't work right. It took me 20+ years to take up programming after that. I loved that Commodore, but programming it didn't work out for me.
Oh yes. I also remember typing nightmares with machine code. You would enter a line of hexadecimal values, and get a hash code as confirmation of correctness. After doing that hundreds of times, you would run it, and it still didn’t work :)
Programming assembler was much more fun. You programmed in a symbolic language. E.g. you used JMP to enter a sub routine. And got proper error messages from the assembler.
Hi, fellow Amiga enthusiast (and demo scene participant) here.
You're probably thinking of the ROM Kernel Reference Manual, AKA The Bible. It contained everything about the HW of the machine, which was out-of-this-world advanced for the time.
I learned it from books. There was particular one book that was really thick, unfortunately I can‘t remember the title, that contained lots of detailed information about memory management, interrupts and so on.
I remember my parents bought me a red book about the „AmigaDOS“ even before the Amiga computer, and I flipped through it. Then, on one page, I found the command „say sth“.
You could type in words and a robot voice would read them aloud. I remember how excited I was, it was unbelievable for me. Probably the moment I decided I wanted to program the Amiga.
I forgot about that
saycommand. This brings me back!youtu.be/ILgKv-WGcV0
Yes!
Nice! I actually had the opposite experience with a Commodore 64, copying BASIC programs out of a book and giving up when they didn't work right. It took me 20+ years to take up programming after that. I loved that Commodore, but programming it didn't work out for me.
Oh yes. I also remember typing nightmares with machine code. You would enter a line of hexadecimal values, and get a hash code as confirmation of correctness. After doing that hundreds of times, you would run it, and it still didn’t work :)
Programming assembler was much more fun. You programmed in a symbolic language. E.g. you used JMP to enter a sub routine. And got proper error messages from the assembler.
Hi, fellow Amiga enthusiast (and demo scene participant) here.
You're probably thinking of the ROM Kernel Reference Manual, AKA The Bible. It contained everything about the HW of the machine, which was out-of-this-world advanced for the time.
Eh, it brings back memories.
I think you‘re right. Thanks for refreshing my memory.