Commodore · 1985
Amiga
A 68000 with the Copper and the Blitter beside it. Custom chips that change the picture in step with the beam and move memory faster than the processor can, on a bus the processor has to share.
- Processor
- Motorola 68000 at about 7 MHz
- Memory
- 512 KB (Amiga 500)
- Year
- 1985
- Books
- 1
Books
Games and demos
Veldrin
A side-scrolling game for the Amiga 500, written on the bare metal with the operating system switched off. It boots from its own floppy, on a real A500 or in an emulator, with no Kickstart ROM needed.
From Amiga Assembly
Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven
A demo for the Amiga 500 in the old tradition of the scene — copper bars, a scroller, bobs and music, with its whole source printed and commented.
From Amiga Assembly
Tools you need
Free, and available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- vasm and vlink — assembler and linker
- FS-UAE — emulator, with a free Kickstart replacement