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This article is from the Amiga Books FAQ, by Marc Atkin with numerous contributions by others.

3.3 Amiga Specific

  o Anders Bjerin: 
    The Amiga C Manual 
    This is an on-line document on using C on the Amiga. It is available from 
    Aminet ( dev/c/ACM.lha ) and on Fish Disks (691-695). 
    From the "readme file": 
    The complete boiled-down C manual for the Amiga which describes how to 
    open and work with Screens, Windows, Graphics, Gadgets, Requesters, 
    Alerts, Menus, IDCMP, Sprites, VSprites, AmigaDOS, Low Level Graphics 
    Routines, Hints and Tips, etc. The manual also explains how to use your C 
    Compiler and gives you important information about how the Amiga works 
    and how your programs should be designed. The manual consists of 15 
    chapters together with more than 100 fully executable examples with 
    source code. 
    beckwwp@eng.auburn.edu (Wendell P. Beckwith), 24 Feb 1994: 
    "This is a wealth of information, however, take note. [...] some of the 
    examples use things which are no longer thought of as good programming, 
    such as unprototyped functions. This is not really a strike against the 
    ACM, since when those portions of the manual were written, using such 
    oddities was the in-thing." 
  o Paul Overaa: 
    Mastering Amiga C 
    Bruce Smith Books, 1991. ISBN 1-873308-04-6 
    Charles Patterson (midian@azstarnet.com), 4 Oct 1997: 
    "Takes you through ANSI C, then moves into Amiga specific C." 
  o Dirk Schaun: 
    Amiga C for Beginners 
    Abacus, 1989-90. ISBN 1-55755-045-X 
    aga@qedbbs.com (Peter Dilley), 28 Jul 1993: 
    "Do not buy. [The book] is just plain crap. Poor Code + Poor textual 
    information. It flies over 1/2 the needed information to do any good C 
    and even worse than that. It is ANCIENT, UNUPDATED. Disgusting! We are 
    programming in the 3.x 2.x rom era not 1.2/1.3..." 
  o [author?] 
    Amiga C for Advanced Programmers 
    Abacus, [year?]. ISBN 1-55755-046-8 
    D.J.Miller@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Miller), 20 Apr 1993: 
    "[...] it isn't worth the paper it's written on. (well it ain't quite 
    that bad but...)" 
    aga@qedbbs.com (Peter Dilley), 28 Jul 1993: 
    "Do not buy. [The book] is just plain crap. Poor Code + Poor textual 
    information. It flies over 1/2 the needed information to do any good C 
    and even worse than that. It is ANCIENT, UNUPDATED. Disgusting! We are 
    programming in the 3.x 2.x rom era not 1.2/1.3..." 

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