ANT

AmigaNews Tech (ANT) was a companion magazine to the French Commodore Revue. ANT targetted developers with programming explanations and examples in various programming languages. I still remember learning about overlays at 16... an experience that changed my life . It seems that 36 instances of ANT (1, 2) appeared in total. I (re)implemented below some of the C programs found in ANT, following Daff's republication of these magazines .

All the examples compile with the NDK v3.1 and VBCC v0.9h, assuming DevKits: as the root of their installations (cf. Cubic IDE). Most archives should contain two main source files: xxx_ORIGINAL.c and xxx.c; the former is the code from the orginal article, the latter is the code modified (as little as possible) to make it compile and run with VBCC.

(One project requires Lattice C to compile and link: ANTOverlays.lha, because it uses the overlay manager of Lattice C. As of VBCC v0.9h, VBCC doesn't include a similar overlay manager yet.)

List of (re)implemented ANT C code examples

Year	Month	Magazine	Title	Source Code
1989	No articles before
	Apr.		N/A	N/A
	May		N/A	N/A
	Jun.		N/A	N/A
	Jul.		N/A	N/A
	Aug.
	Sep.		N/A	N/A
	Oct.		N/A	N/A
	Nov.		Sectoriser	ANTSectoriser.lha
	Dec.		N/A	N/A
1990	Jan.		N/A	N/A
	Feb.		N/A	N/A
	Mar.	No instance that month
	Apr.		3D graphics (basic concepts)	(Data for program in May below...)
	May		3D graphics (basic programming)	ANT3DGraphicsDrawLines.lha
	Jun.		3D graphics (projections, 1st part)	(Explanations on the projections used in Jul./Aug. below...)
	Jul.		3D graphics (perspective projections)	ANT3DGraphicsDrawLinesMoving.lha
	Aug.
	Sep.		3D graphics (animation)	ANT3DGraphicsAnimation.lha
	Oct.		A silencer for disk units	ANTDiskSilencer.lha
	Nov.		Preprocessor of vertexes for Anim	ANT3DGraphicsPreprocessorVerticesAnim.lha
	Dec.		3D graphics (hidden faces)	ANT3DGraphicsDrawFaces.lha
1991	Jan.		File requester from arp.library	ANTARPFileRequester.lha
	Feb.	No instance that month
	Mar.		Opening a screen with graphics.library	ANTScreenWithGraphicsLibrary.lha
			Console.device	ANTConsoleDevice1.lha
			CRBlanker, switching among Intuition screens	ANTCRBlanker.lha
			Public libraries	ANTPublicLibraries.lha
	Apr.		Opening a screen with intuition.library	ANTScreenWithIntuitionLibrary.lha
			Console.device, reception of chars and display with graphics.library	ANTConsoleDevice2.lha
			Creating a super Shell with Intuition menus
	May		EasyWindow, easy creation of a NewWindow struct	ANTEasyWindow.lha
			Boolean and String gadgets	ANTBooleanStringGadgets.lha
	June		Proportional gadgets	ANTProportionalGadgets.lha
			Inserting assembly functions	N/A
			Examples of using the CIAs	ANTCIAExample.lha
	July		Communication between tasks (foundations)	N/A
	Aug.		Drop-down menus	ANTDropDownMenus.lha
	Sep.		Communication between tasks	ANTTwoTasks.lha
			Managing hardware Sprites	ANTHardwareSprites.lha
			Spy, spying on the memory	ANTMemorySpy.lha
			Reentrant programs	ANTReentrantPrograms.lha
	Oct.		Managing VSprites in the Workbench	ANTVirtualSprites.lha
			Layers and regions of Intuition	ANTLayersRegions.lha
			Exec and interruptions	ANTInterruptions.lha
	Nov.		Buffer memory as main memory and ChipMemFirst	ANTBufferAndChipMemory.lha
			Programming with overlays	ANTOverlays.lha (With Lattice C)
	Dec.		Converter of IFF images in source ASCII C or assembly	ANTIFFConverter.lha
1992	Jan.		The BOB	ANTBOBs.lha
	Feb.		Grafting	ANTGrafting.lha
	Mar.		Generating sounds (first part)	N/A
			Generating sounds (second part)	ANTSoundGeneration.lha
	Apr.		N/A	N/A
	May		Audio player IFF 8SVX	ANT8SVXPlayer.lha
			Complex 3D objects
	Jun.		Audio player IFF 8SVX (second part)	ANT8SVXPlayer2.lha
	Jul.	No instance that month
	Aug.		SMUS player
			Usage of GadToolBox
			Intuition windows and timer.device
			Error handling in programs
	No more articles after

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