A1200 as a development platform

[rabindranath72]

Hi all,
Amiga newbie here (or rather, potential newbie as I haven't bought an A1200 yet!)
My main interest would be in OS software development (that is, creating an OS from scratch,) but before I plunge and buy the machine, I'd want to know if there is documentation specific to the A1200. I have seen there is an Amiga Hardware book, but it seems the latest version deals at most with Amiga 3000s and ECS. Did Commodore or third party ever release A1200 specific documentation and software development tools/libraries? I am used to DevPac on the Atari ST, is the Amiga version as good?

Thanks in advance,
Antonio

[kamelito]

Hi all,
Amiga newbie here (or rather, potential newbie as I haven't bought an A1200 yet!)
My main interest would be in OS software development (that is, creating an OS from scratch,) but before I plunge and buy the machine, I'd want to know if there is documentation specific to the A1200. I have seen there is an Amiga Hardware book, but it seems the latest version deals at most with Amiga 3000s and ECS. Did Commodore or third party ever release A1200 specific documentation and software development? I am used to DevPac on the Atari ST, is the Amiga version as good?

Thanks in advance,
Antonio

Hi
Ni specific AGA book, but there is document and coders to help.
One is included in Asmpro.
Devpac is not as good if you use the Atari monochrome monitor but in Amiga you can multitask
Kamelito

[rabindranath72]

Thanks!
So no official documentation to speak of. That's a pity
Indeed I use a mono monitor on my Atari. And MiNT (so I too have multitasking)

[stefcep2]

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.

[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

[rabindranath72]

+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

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.)

[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.

[salax54]

You might want to consider the fact that every Amiga OS version up to 3.9 was not AGA-specific, but could be run from every Amiga model in existence (properly expanded in some cases)..  

[rabindranath72]

"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.

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

[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

[nicholas]

"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.

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga-books.htm

https://www.google.com/search?q=Amiga+guru+book+filetype%3Atorrent

[Thorham]

Elowar's Amiga programming doc site: http://amigadev.elowar.com/
Hardware programming part: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node0000.html

The hardware programming part is OCS and ECS only, but you have to know that stuff anyway to program for AGA.

[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