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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: OS friendly Demos..
- Date: 18 Feb 96 12:58:17 +0000
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- Hi, Fabio Bizzetti , on 16-Feb-96 22:31:59 you scribbled....
- >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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- >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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- Yes this is, and has been badly needed for some time..
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- At the mo it is "easier" (more docs available) to bang the hardware...
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- All it'd take was a few people to release OS-friendly source for game/demo stuff
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- >Ciao and thanks.
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- >| Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC
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- >| The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting"
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- >| working on "Virtual Rally" and "StarFighter", the 3D game that will
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- >| bring the Amiga to the top
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