Katio Kadio Bare-Metal Amiga Programming: For OCS, ECS and AGA

I was a bit hesitant to purchase due to some negative reviews. I have several books, including Hardware Reference Manual but none covers AGA which was my main motivation buying this book. And I'm really happy with it. It's written in a concise way, it presents just enough about each topic to get you going. I like how each chapter is divided: first description and usage, followed by the list of all hardware registers involved, and then detailed description of each register. It makes it very easy to quickly check something so a great reference book.

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Thanks to the book I've managed to get started with Amiga programming and I'm having a lot of fun. It's gives a great overview and the examples found online are very helpful. In same areas, like how to utilities the disk, I would have liked a bit more examples and in depth descriptions. Overall I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Amiga.

As well as providing a detailed reference for the Amiga's hardware, this book does a great job of explaining some of the key concepts that go well beyond what you get from the original Amiga Hardware Reference Manual. This really firmed up my understanding of things like DMA timing and interrupts for example. The code examples are clear and well written, which is easier said than done in assembly! I also like that it includes historical context that describes the evolution of the platform and explains many of the quirks that would otherwise be non-obvious to developers coming to the Amiga today. In some ways it reads like a modern version of the Hardware Reference Manual, written from today's perspective. The focus of the book is very much on the custom hardware so don't expect a general introduction to 68000 assembly or how to set up a development toolchain. It's not going to tell you how to code games or demos. This suits me fine though as there's plenty of other material that covers these things. This book won't be your only learning resource for developing on the Amiga but it should definitely be one of them.

Great book for the price. Hope to see more books in the series in future