scream@brahms.udel.edu (Darren Amato) (03/21/91)
I am just curious to know if there is any sort of (literature guidance) available for someone who is interested in programming a demo. Are there any PD utility disks that assist in the creation of demos? I'm talking about real demos, Solid rotating objects, vector drawings etc... not Director or TurboSilver or Movie demos, not that these aren't real demos but I am looking more toward the Coding type of demo. -scream@brahms.udel.edu Where can you find out about the ROM calls that the amiga has? What is a blitter? What is a copper? etc... etc...
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (03/22/91)
In article <19850@brahms.udel.edu> scream@brahms.udel.edu (Darren Amato) writes: >I am just curious to know if there is any sort of (literature guidance) >available for someone who is interested in programming a demo. Are >there any PD utility disks that assist in the creation of demos? >I'm talking about real demos, Solid rotating objects, vector drawings >etc... not Director or TurboSilver or Movie demos, not that these aren't >real demos but I am looking more toward the Coding type of demo. There are many such programs with source in the Fish series PD disks. They are so numerous, I can't tell you a single one. Just try to get your hand on the "Aquarium" disks which provide contents files for all these disks plus a database to search for certain keywords. Perhaps you find something under "demo" or "3D" etc. >Where can you find out about the ROM calls that the amiga has? Argh! There are NO ROM calls! At least you are NOT allowed to call the Amiga ROM directly! NEVER do this! Instead you call system functions that all reside in one of the function libraries. And the mechanism how to open a library and call any function in them, is explained in every good Amiga book. >What is a blitter? A hardware device to copy rectangular areas between different parts of your screen (or your memory in general), at the same time also doing bit shifts and logical operations with up to 3 such rectangular source areas. Plus optional drawing lines or filling areas at high speed in hardware. >What is a copper? etc... etc... Time to refer you to the official written documentation for the Amiga that is available from Addison-Wesley and named "Amiga ROM Kerbel Manual"s, one of them being the Hardware manual which explains the questions above. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk