| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Could some wise Amiga user (or users) give me some help, I have
just about made the decision to buy an A500 (the competition was
either Atari ST or IBM clone). I will be using the A500 for programming
in C and Pascal.
1) What "serious" mags are there that deal with the Amiga?
Most of the UK Commodore mags are for the gamesters and arcade
freaks! Are there any books/mags that deal with home-brew hardware
add-ons for the A500?
2) Does anyone know of a good Commodore dealer in the London or Herts
area? I had a look at Silica Shop (in Lion House) but it's so
tacky; although they do have a good deal of A500, RF Mod., 10 x PD
disks, etc. for just under �500.
3) What file system does the OS use (flat or tree)?
4) Are there many UK Amiga users?
5) Is Turbo Pascal available in the UK? Has Borland said anything
about making the Turbo Pascal support packages available
(Editor toolkit etc.) for the Amiga?
Thanks for the advice, I hope I haven't upset anyone with my comment
in 1) above!
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| 888.1 | Hope this helps | BOOVX1::SCOTT_MORRIS | Tue Nov 10 1987 15:20 | 7 | |
I Have been developing a C application for the Amiga. The only magazine
that has been partially helpfull has been Amiga World. They have
had several articals on Amiga C development. On the whole they aren't
much help regarding C. They do have some helpful hint in the Hors
d'oeuvres section. They also have product reviews. COMPUTE has several
books on programming the Amiga in both C and Basic.
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| 888.2 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Nov 10 1987 17:34 | 7 | |
Amazing Computing for technical stuff, AmigaWorld for fluff - although
recently they have been getting good technical stuff. There are
a couple other smaller publications like Ami Project and Amigan
that are more hacker oriented. "Transactor for the Amiga" is due
to ship in Jan '88.
-Dave
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| 888.3 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Nov 10 1987 18:06 | 9 | |
re: .0
3) what file system (flat or tree)
I assume tree means nested subdirectories - yes, it has those.
Even has a hashing scheme so that you aren't limited to a fixed
table size # of file entries in the top level directory.
-Dave
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| 888.4 | DCC::JAERVINEN | Don't make your personal name too long | Wed Nov 11 1987 04:00 | 5 | |
If you read German, there are quite a few magazines (though I don't
know about availability in UK). They do have lots of listings in
C (and other languages), HW add-ons etc. Program sources can be
ordered on disk separately.
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