A1200 as a development platform

[OlafS3]

ROM Kernel Manuals,
Amiga Technologies/H and P used to sell documentation on a CD (Amiga Developer CD)
There was a Geek Gadgets CD that also contained documentation.

I'm not a coder, but I remember these things.

+1

I have the "Developer CD 2.1." which contains documentation up to 3.5.

I would recommend to get it from somewhere (propably f.e. it is still available from Vesalia)

here is the link with description:
http://www.vesalia.de/d_developer2.htm

[OlafS3]

Thanks for the info.
But is that only OS information? While that's nice, I am more interested in the actual hardware information (e.g. registers, architecture etc.)

"Revised Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals in AmigaGuide format"

that should include "hardware reference" but i am not sure here at the moment because I am personally more on the "software-side". Perhaps someone here knows it or I could look at it.

[OlafS3]

That would be a huge help, thanks! (only if it's not too much of an hassle, of course!)

No problem. i will look at it and send you a PM

[OlafS3]

I have PM you, perhaps you can look at the link and say if it is good for you

[OlafS3]

That would be a huge help, thanks! (only if it's not too much of an hassle, of course!)

I found this:
"IIRC there was never an AGA-updated revision of HRM or similar from official sources? Or am I mistaken?

 That's correct. Reasons for that were rather silly IMHO, they didn't give out updated HRM's because they wanted "hardware hacking to die"."

It seems there is no updated official reference for AGA

[OlafS3]

That would be a huge help, thanks! (only if it's not too much of an hassle, of course!)

perhaps this:
http://aminet.net/package/docs/help/aga_guide

[OlafS3]

Thanks for the info guys!
Is AGA the only relevant piece of hardware different from the rest? I'd say, for example, that PCMCIA hardware is also new w.r.t. the other Amiga models. And what about the DMA, blitter, copper etc.?

I found another nice page:
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/

[OlafS3]

Yeah I have got those documents, too; but nothing really specific about the A1200
I suppose if Amiga experts like you guys here know nothing about these documents, I suppose they never existed. It reminds me the policy Apple had about its Macintosh machines; the first models up to the Plus were well documented, both from a hardware and software point of view. But if you try to get info on later models...good luck.

and this?
http://amiga-manuals.xiik.net/amiga.php

nice design btw :-)

[OlafS3]

there is schematics with the hardware layout of A1200

[OlafS3]

Yeah I have got those documents, too; but nothing really specific about the A1200
I suppose if Amiga experts like you guys here know nothing about these documents, I suppose they never existed. It reminds me the policy Apple had about its Macintosh machines; the first models up to the Plus were well documented, both from a hardware and software point of view. But if you try to get info on later models...good luck.

and here is another reference:
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/downloads/A1200FuncSpec.txt

[OlafS3]

I have added on my forum site links and informations regarding amiga programming. Perhaps it is interesting for one or another

http://www.amigacoding.de/index.php