AmigaGuide Reference Library
AmigaGuide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga. Many tools and libraries for the Amiga ship with documentation in AmigaGuide format, as a built-in viewer/browser shipped with the OS since the release of Workbench 2.1. As I’ve been working on my pet setcmd project for the Amiga and slowly porting it over to classic 68k systems, I’ve made heavy use of these reference materials.
Thanks to the great AmigaGuideJS online viewer, I can access this documentation whenever I’m not at my Amiga or am coding in my “modern” dev environment. I’ve collected a small library of useful dev guides and API reference documentation below so I have a consistent place to keep it all. I hope it’s useful to others as well, please let me know if there’s anything else you’d like me to add!
Miscellaneous
A collection of various guides and reference material.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| amigaguide | The Amigaguide Manual. Taken from https://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/code/guide/amigaguide.guide |
| installer | Installer utility manual and language reference. Taken from the Installer dev package on Aminet |
| setcmd | My own AmigaGuide documentation for my setcmd tool |
C Autodocs
Taken from https://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/AmigaOS_guides, these provide an AmigaGuide-format API reference for key AmigaOS v3.1 libraries.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| amiga_lib | Core library & utility reference |
| classes | GUI “gadget” components reference |
| devices | Low-level devices reference |
| dos | AmigaDOS reference |
| exec | Exec kernel reference |
| graphics | Graphics library reference |
| handlers | Serial/parallel/printer port & FIFO handler reference |
| intuition | Intuition GUI reference |
| libs0 | realtime.library, wb.library, keymap.library, expansion.library, gadtools.library, layers.library, utility.library |
| libs1 | commodities.library, diskfont.library, bullet.library, datatypes.library, nonvolatile.library, icon.library, iffparse.library, lowlevel.library, OOP |
| libs2 | amigaguide, translator, locale, rexxsyslib, asl |
| resources | Hardware resources (PCMCIA, RTC etc.) reference |