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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 00:38:19 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
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- >About legal OS-coding (allocmem).
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- >does memf_public also mean "non-swappable" for chipmem ?
- What exactly do you mean? Cache? VMM?
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- >This would mean we got to make each are which is acessed by blitter
- >or copper dma public (while swapping out planemem would only cause
- >wrong display but no problems).
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- >All the c2p conversion buffers the blitter acesses, for example.
- >this would include the screenbitmap then.
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- >but, for cpu-only c2p, nothing needs to be protected...
- >will allocraster() make the plane public so I can blitter on it ?
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- >[ BTW allocraster is it legal if I alloc 8 times the size of one plane
- >and just do 1 allocraster for 8 planes ? ;) ]
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- >well, all of the questions are obsolete if chipmem is defined
- >never to be swapped...
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- >Any other things I got to care about to make my code run on future
- >swappers (I heard there are already swapping programs. what about them ?
- >"My program supports gigamem" I read. what does this mean ???)
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- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
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