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- From: peterm@maths.grace.cri.nz (Peter McGavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 05 Feb 1996 02:01:24 GMT
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd
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- In-reply-to: Ben Matthew's message of Sat, 3 Feb 96 18:30:59 GMT
-
- Ben Matthew <ben@bmatthew.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >I'm sorry but I think it's taking it a bit too close to the line saying
- >F-18 Intercepter was "OS-legal" I mean you couldn't run anything whilst it
- >was running
-
- Yes, my network server continues to run quite happily after launching
- F18 from hard disk. If F18 killed multitasking and interrupts then
- the server would lock up. F18 installs an input handler that prevents
- the user flipping screens. Probably F18 uses an own View. This is
- all OS-legal.
-
- >and you couldn't quit.
-
- That's user-unfriendliness, not OS-unfriendliness.
-
- >Also even the data directory was "df0:"
- >which was actually built into the code!! You couldn't run it from df1: or
- >HD without assign df0: dismount then re-assigning df0:
-
- That's a bug, I reckon. Fortunately it's an easy one to work around.
- --
- Peter McGavin. (p.mcgavin@irl.cri.nz)
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