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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:22:41 GMT
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- >So when we design new machines, WHY MUST WE figure in compatability with
- >THESE CRAP PROGRAMS? I say screw them. I wish AT would issue a little
- >more control over these developers. Hardware banging should be left for
- >drivers and low-level libraries, not the games.
- If it wasn't for hardwre banging the Amiga wouldn't even be around anymore. The
- Atari ST would have outperformed the Amiga for games and demos and the Video
- Toaster would never have been created. Plus, hard-banging has hardly caused any
- compataibility problems. I mean almost nothing in the chipset has changed OCS-
- >AGA. Nearly all games and demos that banged the OCS hardware should have worked
- fine on AGA (at leat if you use the bootmenu or something else to turn off
- DblNTSC type mode info for programs written before the LoadView(NULL) ws knwon
- about). Just look how many millions of games and demos crashed when ECS
- computers went from 1.3 to 2.0, now what did that have to do with banging the
- hardware? The hardware was exactly the same. The reason that there have been so
- many problems is because lots of stupid things were done. Poking into the OS,
- stealing workbench copperlists, using illegal CPU instructions, nasty disk-drive
- copy protectiton schemes, etc. Don't blame all that stuff on banging the
- hardware. Also not that a lot of OS only programmers also did dumb stuff and
- there programs also break right and left and no ones blames them for using the
- OS.
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