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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS friendly part II
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:53:45 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
-
- >So I will be able to do 18bit drawing on my vanilla A1200,
-
- You can't.
-
- >but not
- >on draco ?
-
- There you chose a nice 24bit mode.
-
- >not good, really not good. Needing a special viewer for
- >a special driver sucks.
-
- Special viewer ?
-
- >would be no problem redirecting the data to a special renderer if
- >ham bit is set in screen struc (I guess the gfx-card got a 24bit mode).
-
- Maybe, but who cares ? RTG is all about "you check what you have and
- handle that accordingly". Special modes like HAM need special treatment
- (and probably some support in the OS).
-
- >my old intros did check nothing. I intend my new ones not crashing on draco
- >(well, I hope they soon get a audio.device).
-
- Oh, and without audio.device your intros crash ? You do use
- _audio.device_ ? Oh yeah, use it to allocate channels and poke
- away. No, that won't work on Draco.
-
- >you won't believe it, but I enjoy my current programs not disabling OS,
-
- No, I don't believe that. You are not that masochistic to use a
- "sucking OS".
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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