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From: Andy Malcolm <andy@gx2.uk.mdis.com>
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Hi Martin,
I bought the Libraries and Includes/Autodocs RKM's recently and the Libraries
manual is very good, from what I've read the manual is v.well written and
goes into a lot of detail about all aspects of programming the amiga. It does
assume a knowledge of 'C' or assembler programming, esp 'C' (which the amiga
O.S is largely written in).
Also the libraries manual has a large number of pieces of example code which
is available on fish disks #741 and #742 (most examples are in 'C'). The
Includes / Autodocs RKM is really little more than a indexed listing of the
include files. It would be useful to a serious programmer as you can look in
their instead of hunting around on the machine.
I do not know what the hardware manual is like, judging by the Libraries
manual it should be comprehensive. However the release 3 of the libraries
manual is based around OS 2.x which is o.k but whether a hardware manual
would be up to date with AGA is debatable.
Finally these manuals are not cheap #38.99 each. I got mine from Hisoft
U.K on 0525 718181. They seemed able to answer some technical queries I
gave them, so ring them about the hardware manual.