Issue 89

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General News
List of Commodore Products
This is a very comprehensive list of Commodore equipment.
The list was originally started by Jim Brain and is now being
maintained by Bo Zimmerman. If you can add information
to this list please contact Bo with your additions or amendments
http://www.zimmers.net/commie/docs/cbm-products.txt
Commodore: The Early Years
And Commodore Amiga Years
Brian's Kickstarter campaign has been a huge success so far
so take a look at it and provide your support for an accomplished
Commodore author by purchasing his new books at:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/com
modore-the-amiga-years-book/
Take a look at Brian's promo video for the new Amiga book:
https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1875854
/video-544399-h264_high.mp4
Hello! I’m Brian Bagnall and I want to tell you the story of
Commodore during the Amiga years. Commodore produced
my favourite computers in the eighties and for years I waited
for someone to write a book about those incredible times.
Strangely, it seemed like publishers were only interested in
talking about Apple, Microsoft and IBM. It’s time to give the
Commodore Amiga some credit as the first commercially
successful multimedia computer.
Vasm 1.7b released
Vasm is a portable and retargetable assembler to create linkable
objects in various formats or absolute code. Multiple
CPU-, syntax and output-modules can be selected. Many
common directives/pseudo-opcodes are supported (depending
on the syntax module) as well as CPU-specific extensions.
The assembler supports optimizations (e.g. choosing the
shortest possible branch instruction or addressing mode)
and relaxations (e.g. converting a branch to an absolute
jump when necessary). Most syntax modules support macros,
include directives, repetitions, conditional assembly
and local symbols.
The following CPUs are supported: M680x0, ColdFire, 80x86,
PowerPC, ARM, Jaguar RISC, Z80, C16x/ST10, 6502 and the
6800.
Take a journey from Amiga's beginnings in 1982 to when
Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994. Dozens of brilliant
and motivated engineers produced a computer with
graphics, sound and multitasking capabilities years ahead of
Apple and IBM. A lot happened in that decade, and this book
will describe to you the most relevant parts in a definitive
history of the Amiga story and Commodore’s final descent..."
http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/
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