November 2024
Retro PC Builds in 2024 - Part 2
I had planned to do this next part much earlier, but I had to travel to Prague again for work in late September and much of October.
A little odd: TAG_DONE and TAG_END
Sometimes one might get confused when to use TAG_DONE in AmigaOS C-code, and when to use TAG_END. The answer is very simple: They're one and the same. But it turns out there might be a little bit of an unknown story to these two widely used tokens.
TAG_DONE showed up before TAG_END, in NDK1.3, along with struct
TagItem, but not as part of the system includes, and the TagItem system
wasn't used in system functions.
Or was it? This is a section of code from the file Read-Me1.3/A2024Docs/OpenA2024.c, which is part of NDK1.3.
Great Amiga Demos!
Just in case you didn't notice, there's a growing number of Amiga demo videos on the YouTube channel.
Amiga demos are just fun to watch, and oftentimes feature some fantastic music.
This is a collection of classic Amiga "multimedia", featuring demos by The Black Lotus, Spaceballs, Digital, Parallax, etc., and more to come. Maybe you wanna subscribe to the channel to get notified of new uploads?
To get you started, here's Spaceballs' "State of the Art" from 1992: