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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: fatman2021 on February 13, 2003, 10:14:28 PM
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All of my asm programming experince is on the x86 platform. I would like start writing software for the AmigaOne platform using PowerPC asm code. If any one have any or can point to where I can find any it will be a big help. One more thing, my computer can't read .hla files, but can read tar, gz, txt, and zip file formats. Thanks for your help. fatman2021
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I'm still looking for PowerPC asm examples
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I don't know anything about programming but would this be helpful?
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone5/articles/article313.htm
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Here are some links:
ProgrammersHeaven (http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone5/articles/article313.htm)
Aminet (http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/dev/asm/ppctut.lha)
Information about RISC (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/cs352/spr2002/resources/rivera-dirks.html)
You´ll need the information about RISC architecture, if you wanna learn PowerPC assembler. Actually i´ll guess you´ll learn it much easier if you read some documentation about RISC first, as PowerPC is a RISC architecture.
Anyhows, THE book for learning about RISC is "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface" by Hennesey & Patterson. If you really wanna learn RISC programming, this book gives you all the informations about pipelining, caches, etc, and has good examples in MIPS code (which of course, also is RISC).
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tutorial #1 (http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.09/PowerPCAssembly/)
tutorial #2 (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ppc/?t=gr,lnxw16=PowPC)
tutorial #3 (what I used to learn) (http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/begin1.html)