Amiga C books/Video Tut.
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Howdy! I new to the Amiga World. Recently I got an Amiga 3000 and a C
compiler from SAS Institute, version 6…? Anyway I program a little
in C for the PC. I have been at several book stores, e.g., Bookstop,
B. Dalton, and Walden. I have yet not been able to find more than
one, and, or the same book in C for the Amiga. I see a lot of books
in C for the PC, but not for the Amiga. Where do you, C programmers,
get references and stuff for the Amiga in C or C++? Also do you know
of any company that puts out a video course in C for the Amiga?
Thanks in advance!
Javier,
SAS 6.x C is ANSI complient, so for the pure 'C' stuff, you can use any
book. As for interfacing with AmigaDOS, you're going to probably need the
RKMs "Rom Kernel Manuals". These are published by Addison-Wesley and
available at many (well in SoCal, many) technical bookstores. The RKM's
(edition 3) come in at least 4 volumes.
Video course in C? no, I've held two C classes here on Compuserve,
and the 'lectures' and 'class transcripts' are here in the libraries
somewhere (I dont' recall which lib right now). Also there is a
rather complete set of 'documents' in 4 large compressed files called
CMAN1.lha through CMAN4.lha (I think those are over in the AmigaUser
libraries, but thy might be here also…check out the library for C
language).
Javier,
The following manuals are MUST have for Amiga programming…
Published by Addison-Wesley…
Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual Libraries ISBN 0-201-56774-1
Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual Includes & Autodocs ISBN 0-201-56773-3
Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual Devices ISBN 0-201-56775-X
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual ISBN 0-201-56776-8
Amiga User Interface Style Guide ISBN 0-201-57757-7
If you find them in the book store make sure they are the ones with the
brown covers and are for version 2.0 of the Amiga OS. These are the most
current ones available.
MikeM:) "Amiga means never having to say you're sorry!"
A mail order company called Briwall sells all five RKMs for $99.
That's a pretty good deal.
If you can only afford a few of the books now, buy Libraries and
Devices first. These have tutorial style articles that discuss how
to use the Amiga's system software. Includes and Autodocs is
extremely useful, as it is a listing of all the #include files and
descriptions of the library functions.
Steve, thanks for the info. Do you have the telephone number for Briwalll? Your
reply got addressed to Michael. This is why I just found out about it!
Thanks a lot!
Sorry it took me so long to reply, but I've just moved from California to
Nebraska. The phone number is (800) 638-5757. I don't know if they still
have the deal or not, but I think it was still in their last ad in Amiga
World.
Steve