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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AddIntServer + VERTB strangeness
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 21:40:44 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <966.6667T896T1381@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- >> So you should cancel all the great games that need to hit the hardware
- >> just
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 ^^^^^^^^^^^2
- >1. not necessary
- Then let's see you duplicate all those fancy copper effects using only the
- OS.
-
- >Any game is easily possible without killing the OS, i.e. any game
- >is easily possibly HD installable and WB startable. I can't think
- >of a single exception.
- True.
-
- >BTW, there is no such thing as "shutting down the OS temporarily".
- >It does not work in general. There is such a thing as "taking over
- >the display temporarily". Most people don't differentiate here at
- >all, which tells us something about their competence.
-
- Well I, and others from what I've seen, think that turning off muli-
- tasking, and handling evreything that appears on the screen and comes out of
- the audio channels and interrupts directly can reasonably be called shutting
- down the OS temporarily.
-
-