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AmigaNews Tech (ANT) was a companion magazine to the French Amiga magazine AmigaNews (also known for a while as A-News). 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 31 instances of ANT appeared in total. I (re)implemented below some of the C programs found in ANT, following Daff's republication of these magazines .

List of (re)implemented ANT C code examples
Year Month Title Source Code
  Dec.    
1991 Jan. File requester from arp.library  

Feb.

 Grafting  
Mar. Opening a screen with graphics.library ANTScreenWithGraphicsLibrary.lha
Console.device ANTConsoleDevice1.lha
CRBlanker, switching among Intuition screens  
Public libraries  
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  
June Proportional gadgets  
Inserting assembly functions  
July Drop-down menus  
Communication between tasks (foundations)  
Aug. N/A N/A
Sep. Communication between tasks ANTTwoTasks.lha
Managing hardware Sprites  
Spy, spying on the memory  
Reentrant programs  
Oct. Managing VSprites in the Workbench  
Layers and regions of Intuition  
Exec and interruptions
Nov. Buffer memory as main memory and ChipMemFirst  
Programming with overlays  
Dec. Converter of IFF images in source ASCII C or assembly  
1992