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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 12:06:18 +1000
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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- HAAVARD JAKOBSEN (haa_jako@gih.no) wrote:
- : G. Baldwin wrote:
-
- : > : About half the messages posted in this newsgroup, c.s.a.games,
- : > : g.s.a.multimedia, etc., are about 060 compatability problems with old
- : > : software. Yu see like about 50 new messages a week. Maybe 3 new messages
- : > : about problems with '030. Why wouldAT want to release a machine that was
- : > : just gonna have problems running everything, and call it official?
-
- : Fuck backwards compability on hardwarebanging stuff...
-
- <groan> What the hell does backwards compatibility of hardware banging
- code have to do with 060's vs. 030's. If hardware banging code works on
- an 030, and fails on an 060, it's not the hardware banging that is at
- fault, it's the CODE. Or do you think putting an 060 card in your Amiga
- magically changes the custom chipset so it no longer behaves in the same
- way.
-
- People don't need to stop hardware banging to avoid 060 problems, or
- learn how to hardware bang better - they need to learn how to code in
- assembly better, and not do things like self-modify code and then only
- flush the instruction cache (works on 030, can fail on 040/060 due to
- copyback datacache).
-
- Changing custom hardware makes hardware banging incompatible. Changing
- CPU only makes lame assembly code incompatible. Just like changing the
- OS makes misuse of OS functions incompatible. Programs can fail for all
- three reasons.
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