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- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Message-ID: <DoKtxz.A2y@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <4in47b$4qf@kaon.kuai.se>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:29:59 GMT
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- > It's about time ppl start doing things through the system just as
- > the reference manuals and programmer guides says you should do it.
- > I hardly belive C= really told ppl to bang directly on the hardware.
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- They published the Hardware Reference Manual. It has a chapter on how to
- access the low-level disk interface. If that isn't telling people it's OK
- to use it, what is?
-
- Jolyon
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- ps. This doesn't mean *I* think it's a good idea, I'm just saying it's
- quite reasonable for games developers to have thought it was perfectly
- sensible to bash hardware, and they are not entirely to blame.
- Floppy-disk protection systems were an unfortunate necessity and wouldn't
- be easy without low-level access anyway.
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