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Compute's Amiga Machine Language Programming Guide

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(Man, this site is slow today!). I learned 68000 assembler using this book. It teaches you not only 68000 assembler, but also how to set up assembler programs on the Amiga. It gives you a lot of include files which you have to type in, these include files can come in very handy for writing your own programs later. Debugging these programs for the typo's you made is your first practice at writing assembler! The learning curve is a bit steep at first but the book is very well written with not too many ambiguities (unlike the Abacus book "Amiga Machine Language" which is full of them). The book is of course a little outdated as Workbench 2 + was not out when it was written, however this book will give you a very thorough grounding in the basics of programming 68000 assembler on the Amiga. I do have criticisms of this book. Each chapter consists of a new program you have to type in and debug, all these programs then go together to make a programming environment you can use for your own programs. However this is a pretty intimidating process and it locks you in to a programming environment which is not your own and which you may not entirely understand, and furthermore an environment that may be larger and more complex than necessary for some small programs. For this reason I would say the book is not an ideal method to learn 68000 on the Amiga, nor is it suitable for those with little or no prior programming experience. However, I personally enjoyed the challenge of working my way through it. It's not a bad double as a 68000 reference either. In summary, it's a flawed book but all the information necessary to begin 68000 programming on the Amiga is there for those who persevere. 3 out of 5.