Transactor For The Amiga (July 1989)

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Transactor was a long running technical Commodore magazine that mostly covered Commodore's various 8-bit computers (and mostly the Commodore 64 once it came along). It was published all the way from 1978 to 1989. There was also a spinoff in 1988 titled Transactor for the Amiga. As you probably guessed, it's basically the same kind of thing but for the Amiga.

The July 1989 issue of Transactor for the Amiga includes the following:

• Interrupts: The Heart Of Exec - Carl Sassenrath wrote the interrupt code in the Amiga; in this article, he tells you how to use it.
• A Vile of Illiteracies - Our curmudgeon attacks computer literature - and provides some hilarious examples.
• Getting A Handle On File Systems, Part 3 - An entire file system, compatible with AmigaDOS, is presented to illustrate handler concepts.
• Effective Documentation - Standards for manual writers.
• Cubic Spline Interpolation - Cubic splines let you represent complex curves with just a few points. Eric provides routines in C.
• Debugging With Metascope - A tutorial shows techniques for getting right to the problems in your code, using MetaScope.
• Hard Disk Husbandry - Now that you have a hard drive, what do you do with it? here are some tricks, tips and techniques.
• Programming In M2AMIGA - Building on last month's article on interfacing with assembly, Anthony hooks up WarpText.
• Toy - A Small Compiler for the Amiga - Part 1 of a series in which Chris Gray develops a compiler before your very eyes!
• Departments and Columns
• Amiga Dispatches - The great debate: how to implement the HELP key? Also, the future of Amiga WordPerfect.
• Mastering The Raster - A commercial video production, from start to finish: what it takes to complete a job.
• Assembly Language Programming - Jim delves further into the DOS routines and a variety of new topics.
• Hard Copy - A look at the manual that comes with Turbo Silver teaches some lessons on what not to do.
• Reviews
• LightBox from R & DL Productions
• GFA BASIC 3.0 from Antic Software

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