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MC68000 assembly language was so much fun on the great Commodore Amiga. It gave you the opportunity not only to code quickly nice video effects, but also to learn a lot about what is the architecture of a computer, how the CPU works with other coprocesseors (there were many on the Amiga, among which the Blitter to copy data blocks / draw lines / fill shapes, and the amazing Copper to control the video).

I recently decided to code again some stuff because I wanted to write some articles for the retro section of a magazine, and it was so pleasant that I coded some more and documented it (here for those interested, in french at this time, but there are pictures: http://www.stashofcode.fr/category/retrocoding/).

I hope people still have the opportunity to have a look at assembly language at school. The article is interesting. It reminds me also that I always heard that coding in assembly language was hard. Well, I would not have say that back in 1996. x86 was a pain in the ass because of the lack of registers and the way memory was managed, but Mx68x00 was very simple indeed. IMO, what was a bit difficult was that if you wanted to code assembly, you had to learn about how what was around the CPU did work.