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Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Devices (3rd Edition)

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This book covers the hardware interface to the AmigaOS. There are interfaces for every aspect of the AmigaOS including the Game Port, Audio, Console, Keyboard, Parallel, SCSI, Serial, Timer, TrackDisk, and other devices. The IFF (Interchange File Format) is detailed. Also covered is some information about the physical layout of the floppy, RigidDiskBlock, and Amiga Bootstrap. This book is great for AmigaOS system programmers needing to communicate at the hardware level or OS designers needing hints about Amiga hardware aspects. This book is also excellent for presenting a well thought out I/O interface for acessing the hardware and organinzing drivers.

This book details basic driver interfaces to various driver APIs available for the AmigaOS. Some detail of hardware in regards to Input Devices are covered. Details of Chipsets are not covered in this book.

I read this book often over a refreshing herbal iced tea and just chill out. Even though I know how the book is going to end, I'm always on the edge of my seat by the time I reach the last chapter. It's still a page turner every time out, dude! My favorite character in the book has to be Kernal Rom. I love his accent! And the way he beats up on the autistic clown in chapter 6, though controversial, really drives home some of the books larger thematic points. Danny, I say to myself, that clown is you... and that beating is your inner child, fighting to get out. It gets to me every time I read it...