alt Hacker News> the entire Amiga hardware and operating system was written to make assembly coding convenient
I am curious what specific examples do you have of the HW and OS being made/written to make ASM convenient?
> the entire Amiga hardware and operating system was written to make assembly coding convenient
I am curious what specific examples do you have of the HW and OS being made/written to make ASM convenient?
The hardware could be controlled via memory mapped 16-bit registers, e.g. checking whether the left mouse button is down is a single instruction:
The OS used a simple assembly-friendly calling convention, parameters were passed in registers instead of the stack (and the API documentation mentioned which parameters are expected in which registers), and the reference manuals usually had both C and assembly examples, etc... basically lots of little things to make the lives of assembly coders easier.This YouTube playlist gives a nice overview of assembly coding on the Amiga (mostly via direct hardware access though): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc3ltHgmiidpK-s0eP5hT...