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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: OS friendly Demos..
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 22:31:59 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
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- I've seen many programmers affirming that the OS is good enough to not disable
- it. Although I don't agree in some points at all, I believe that making demos
- and games we should make them OS legal whenever it's possible.
- This includes:
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- # Allocating the resources before we hit the hardware, to return back to the OS.
- # Using AmigaDos routines instead of trackloaders.
- # LoadView(0), 2*WaitTof().
- # Setting/Removing an Input Handler.
- # Allocating Interrupts without -significative- CPU overhead (read: many INTs).
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- Well, I think that all these points are extremely simple, besides the last 2.
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- I made some experiments with AddIntServer() and they were working, although
- I still have to check how much the OS delayes the response to the Interrupt.
- The SetIntVector() experiment I made crashed. I've honestly no time to study
- the OS, as well as many other coders IMO, so if these OS's defenders want to
- be so nice to write an assembly, short as much as possible source to intercept
- the Amiga-M/N keys, and to use OS interrupts, then I think they would only
- help concretely the demo/game coders to not disable completely the OS.
- No shared libraries please.
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- Ciao and thanks.
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
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