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Offline psxphill

Re: Getting an amiga...
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 10, 2011, 10:42:23 AM »
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As for coding I'd go for 68K assembler, fairly easy to learn and you'll get the best speed possible out of anything you may write... :)

It depends on what you want to write and how much time you have. High level languages allow you to write software quicker at the expense of execution speed. However if the CPU isn't the bottlekneck or the code is executed rarely then the overhead of coding in assembly isn't worthwhile.
 
Choice of algorithms plays a huge part in optimising, more complex algorithms are much harder to write in assembly.
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Re: Getting an amiga...
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2011, 11:47:08 AM »
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3) As long as those floppies aren't dirty or full of mould, they might still work, and can be formatted as 880k. If your Amiga is a later model A1200 it might have a modified PC HD drive in it, which won't read HD floppies but will require you to put tape over the extra hole on all your disks or it won't recognise them. Using HD disks formatted as DD isn't very reliable, they develop read errors pretty soon. If they're just games, written from an ADF file, usually all you need to do is write the image back to the disk and it will work again (I always write an ADF twice or three times in a row to make sure it's really stamped in there). Just don't use them for important storage.

Check out YouTube to see lots of cool stuff people are using their Amigas for, I use my A1200 every day as my main computer, and use several other Amigas and Amiga-like OSs on various hardware, and I'm going to try and upload more videos as I get the free time to make them. Here's my channel anyway: http://www.youtube.com/user/AmigaCammy#p/u


Or if you have a (apparently rare) special expansion on a 1200, like on mine, you can use the HD PC floppy drive just like an HD drive is supposed to work.  Read, write, and format both 1,440KB PC (with CrossDOS) and 1,760KB Amiga high density floppies, which sure makes it easier if you're wanting to read existing PC disks with data on them.

My A1200 is my main computer as well... my only working computer right now.  I'm going to be setting up Amiga-like OS on a PC laptop/netbook soon.  :)
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Re: Getting an amiga...
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2011, 04:49:34 PM »
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It depends on what you want to write and how much time you have. High level languages allow you to write software quicker at the expense of execution speed. However if the CPU isn't the bottlekneck or the code is executed rarely then the overhead of coding in assembly isn't worthwhile.
This is true generally, but really 68k assembly is halfway to being a high-level language already - I'd just stick with it, myself.
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