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I wanted to learn assembly language on the Amiga so bad when I was a kid. The demoscene guys were my heroes, but I didn't have a guide, and certainly no modem.

I wanted to learn assembly language on the Amiga so bad when I was a kid. The demoscene guys were my heroes, but I didn't have a guide, and certainly no modem. I got AMOS basic for my birthday instead. Not the worst start I guess, they're still making popular games with its distant descendant Multimedia Fusion today. Years later when we emptied that house, I found an assembly programming manual. Turned out it was there all along... It doesn't really feel tempting to go back and learn it now, though.

bemmu 7y ago
My story exactly. Played around with Amos, was interested in assembler but it wasn't practical to get into it. I went to the library and could only find one manual about game programming tricks (not the basics) in 68000 asm, but it was too advanced for me and I didn't even have an assembler. You just had whatever software your friends happened to have or what was included on coverdisks that came with magazines. Also like your story, later I realized that I could actually have had access to the software and information, since I was going every year to the Assembly demoscene event and could have surely found the tools and information there if I had just tried harder. It's incredible how now you can just get any software and such wonderful tutorials for anything imaginable that you could want to learn. What a time to be alive.