ANT / 2020-09-20 07:56:33

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 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 .

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)  
Aug.
Sep. 3D graphics (animation)  
Oct. A silencer for disk units  
Nov. Preprocessor of vertexes for Anim  
Dec. 3D graphics (hidden faces)  
1991 Jan. File requester from arp.library  

Feb.

No instance that month
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  
Examples of using the CIAs ANTCIAExample.lha
July Communication between tasks (foundations)  
Aug. Drop-down menus  
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 Jan. The BOB  
Feb. Grafting  
Mar. Generating sounds (first part)  
Generating sounds (second part)  
Apr. N/A N/A
May Audio player IFF 8SVX  
Complex 3D objects  
Jun. Audio player IFF 8SVX (second part)  
Jul. No instance that month
Aug. SMUS player  
Usage of GadToolBox  
Intuition windows and timer.device  
Error handling in programs  
No more articles after