{"id":1063,"date":"2012-10-30T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2022-12-27T03:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T08:04:57","slug":"transactor-for-the-amiga-volume-2-issue-4-july-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/30\/transactor-for-the-amiga-volume-2-issue-4-july-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Transactor for the Amiga (July 1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines\/Amiga_Transactor\/Amiga_Transactor_1989-07&amp;twg_show=Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/61\/10\/a3\/6110a3e9717c4c5c0a7b3b9d03abeb04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"978\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transactor was a long running technical Commodore magazine that mostly covered Commodore&#8217;s various 8-bit computers. It was published all the way from 1978 to 1989. There was also a spin-off in 1988 titled Transactor for the Amiga. As you probably guessed, it&#8217;s basically the same kind of thing but for the Amiga.<\/p>\n<p>The July 1989 issue of Transactor for the Amiga includes the following:<\/p>\n<h1>Features<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Interrupts: The Heart Of Exec<\/b> &#8211; Carl Sassenrath, the man who wrote the interrupt code in the Amiga, explains how to use interrupts on the Amiga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Vile of Illiteracies<\/b> &#8211; Making fun of mangled grammar. Are two year old drives really two-year old drives or two year-old drives? Plus absurd new (relatively speaking) words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Getting A Handle On File Systems, Part 3<\/b> &#8211; Part three of a series on file systems. This part discusses mapping the file system to physical media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Effective Documentation<\/b> &#8211; A standard way to construct a user manual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cubic Spline Interpolation<\/b> &#8211; Using cubic spline interpolation to accurately draw curves. Routines for doing this in C are provided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Debugging With Metascope<\/b> &#8211; A tutorial for Metascope, a debugger for the Amiga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hard Disk Husbandry<\/b> &#8211; A guide to effectively using a hard drive, including topics such as partitioning, directories and subdirectories, and various useful disk commands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Programming In M2AMIGA<\/b> &#8211; Part 2 of a series of articles on using Modula 2 on the Amiga (specifically, M2AAMIGA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Toy &#8211; A Small Compiler for the Amiga<\/b> &#8211; Part 1 of a series on constructing a compiler for a simple language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/30\/transactor-for-the-amiga-volume-2-issue-4-july-1989\/transactor_for_the_amiga_vol_02_04_1989_july-04\/\" class=\"attachment wp-att-30376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-747x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-747x1024.jpg 747w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-768x1053.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-1120x1536.jpg 1120w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-1494x2048.jpg 1494w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04-88x120.jpg 88w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-04.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Departments and Columns<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Amiga Dispatches<\/b> &#8211; Two options for implementing the help key. Plus, poor sales lead to cancelling future versions of World Perfect on the Amiga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mastering The Raster<\/b> &#8211; Completing a video production, including animation, on the Amiga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Assembly Language Programming<\/b> &#8211; Part 5 of a series on assembly language programming. DOS routines and other topics are covered in this part.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hard Copy<\/b> &#8211; Turbo Silver is a 3D modeling and animation program for the Amiga. It was a good product hampered by poor documentation. This is a look what was done wrong in regards to the manual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/30\/transactor-for-the-amiga-volume-2-issue-4-july-1989\/transactor_for_the_amiga_vol_02_04_1989_july-05\/\" class=\"attachment wp-att-30375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-747x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-747x1024.jpg 747w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-768x1053.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-1120x1536.jpg 1120w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-1494x2048.jpg 1494w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05-88x120.jpg 88w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-05.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Reviews<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>LightBox<\/b> from R &amp; DL Productions &#8211; A traditional animation tool for the Amiga for $189.95.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>GFA BASIC 3.0<\/b> from Antic Software &#8211; An advanced BASIC language editor\/interpreter with poor documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-770x1024.jpg 770w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-768x1021.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-1540x2048.jpg 1540w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88-90x120.jpg 90w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Transactor_for_the_Amiga_Vol_02_04_1989_July-88.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transactor was a long running technical Commodore magazine that mostly covered Commodore&#8217;s various 8-bit computers. It was published all the way from 1978 to 1989. There was also a spin-off in 1988 titled Transactor for the Amiga. As you probably guessed, it&#8217;s basically the same kind of thing but for the Amiga. The July 1989 issue of Transactor for the Amiga includes the following: Features Interrupts: The Heart Of Exec &#8211; Carl Sassenrath, the man who wrote the interrupt code in the Amiga, explains how to use interrupts on the Amiga. A Vile of Illiteracies &#8211; Making fun of mangled grammar. Are two year old drives really two-year old drives or two year-old drives? Plus absurd new (relatively speaking) words. Getting A Handle On File Systems, Part 3 &#8211; Part three of a series on file systems. This part discusses mapping the file system to physical media. Effective Documentation &#8211; A standard way to construct a user manual. Cubic Spline Interpolation &#8211; Using cubic spline interpolation to accurately draw curves. Routines for doing this in C are provided. Debugging With Metascope &#8211; A tutorial for Metascope, a debugger for the Amiga. Hard Disk Husbandry &#8211; A guide to effectively using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[169,471,1825],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-computer-arcana","tag-amiga","tag-commodore","tag-transactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30377,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/30377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}