nelson@unc.UUCP (Alex Nelson) (10/15/85)
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As promised to several people, here are the results of the survey
about Mac architecture and assembly language:
Sounds like he needs the Macintosh 68000 Development System. It
costs around $90 and comes with the two books he'll need:
- Inside Macintosh
- M68000 Programmer's Reference Manual
It also comes with two disks containing the assembler, the linker,
an editor and other utilities. Unless he has a real fondness for
assembly programming, he should reconsider and check out one of
the many C compilers available. I have Megamax C and have had no
problems.
Tom Palmer
Motorola's manual on the 68000 is the best. Kanes, Hawkins, and Leventhal
from Osborne books is also good, but the motorola is better.
Inside Mac or Mac Revealed.
The best source of mac architecture is inside mac. The paperback
version is $12 at the Duke bookstore, just don't tell the guy you aren't
true blue. :-) :-) Also, an account on compuserve is probably a good
idea, as that is where the official MAUG Members Access Users Group(i think)
is located, and supposedly you can e-mail questions to Andy Hertzfield,
and get answers the next day, though i do not have an account on compuserve to
verify this.
will wilson wwilson@mcnc
I've found a book on the subject that seems to be good; of course, I
don't know assembler, so I could be mistaken. It's titled "MacIntosh Assembly
Language Programming". It seems to be written clearly, and comes with a
complete example of an integer calculator. The author is Jake Commander.
Eric
Eric Carleen
University of Rochester Medical Center
Good luck all of you who try these suggestions.
-Alexarndt@ttds.UUCP (Arndt Jonasson) (10/24/85)
In article <322@unc.unc.UUCP> nelson@unc.UUCP (Alex Nelson) writes: > [long list of suggestions of literature for the Mac OS and the 68000 > processor] Why isn't anybody mentioning "MacIntosh Revealed"? In my opinion, it is THE book for learning how the Mac works. There are two volumes, with 626+516 = 1142 pages. The author is Stephen Carnicoff, who "contributed to the early development of the Lisa computer, and helped write Apple's Inside MacIntosh documentation". Each chapter clearly describes a certain aspect of the toolbox, and gives examples in Lisa Pascal. The end result of the Pascal examples is a complete program, called MiniEdit. Each chapter is followed by a reference section, listing concisely the toolbox calls described in the previous chapter. You still need the Inside MacIntosh if you want to fully control your Mac, but this book goes a long way towards that goal. Some topics are not covered at all, like drivers, sound generation etc. But those are not main concerns to a Mac programmer, who just wants to know how the thing works. If you have any reason at all to read Inside MacIntosh, read this book first. The price is 75$ (approximately), and it is worth it. Arndt Jonasson ZYX Research, Stockholm UUCP: {decvax, philabs}!mcvax!enea!ttds!arndt