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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: AddIntServer + VERTB strangeness
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:23:12 GMT
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-
- >>>>How can I ensure that my interrupt server is the *only* one that gets
- >>>>called?
- >>>You must not do this. VBlank servers must allow other servers to run.
- >>>Trying to "take over" is not legal. If you want to be so user annoying
- >>>you should kill the OS, take over the hardware and require a reboot later.
- >> Why must you not do that? You don't need to re-boot afterwards.
- >You MUST reboot afterwards.
-
- Why?? Wait. Ok there, I just went and ran a little demo of mine that does
- just this and see, here I am, back continuing entering this message.
- Everythingis running fine. If you ran it during a telecom transfer it wouldn't
- be good, but that's obvious. You'll get a timeout or whatever.
-
-
- >>You can
- >>safely shut everything down, do your direct stuff, then safely restore
- >>everythign when your program is finished running.
- >NO, you CANNOT do this.
- Well I just did. I know that demo works on an A1000, A1200,A2000/030 and
- A4000/040 and restores ok afterwards.
-
- >>etc. it isn't good but for demos and games it can be.
- >NO, it CANNOT be.
- Well, it just happened.
-
- >We had this discussion several times. You may get something that somehow
- >works on some hardware configurations, but you cannot get something that
- >reliably works on every configuration just because you do not know how
- >to handle all the hardware yourself. There is more to an Amiga than an
- >68020 and an AGA chipset.
- I don't believe that. Not unless you consider something like a Draaco an
- Amiga (which I don't).
-
-