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| Prg.name : TDP | |
| Date : 03.03.1991 | *---------------------------*
| Language : Modula 2 |/ /|
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| ---- Copyright Tom Kroener | | /|
| /(c)| Richard Wagner Str. 40 | | / |
| / TKs| D-6602 SB-Dudweiler | | / *
| / 1991| GERMANY | * / /
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| TDP is a freely distibutable program, but no public-domain | /
| TDP may not be used in commercial products without my permission|/
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About TDP:
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TrackDisPlay (TDP) displays the position of the read/write head
of any (amigados-)diskdrive, connected to your amiga.
You don't need to buy a hardware-trackdisplay, so save your
money for better things.( e.g. sending it to me (haha) )
TDP searches for the screen being in front of all and opens a little
window on it to display the data.
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Details :
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Because of having a taskpriority of -100, it's possible that TDP
needs some time to refresh. (not much but it could be better).
( Sorry, but I've spend a lot of time trying to implement a routine
using 'wait' or 'waitport' from exec to wait for the message of each
drive, but it's not easy to wait for e.g. 4 messages (df0:- df3:)
at the same time in an efficient and elegant way without greating
a lot of code.
( I've written some kind of 'hardware-hack-, no multitask-, misterious
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spaggeti-code-, nobody knows why but it works- assembler-routine',
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solving my problem; therefore, I'm looking for something better.)
If anyone no how to do this : write to me, I would be very happy.
TDP never crashed on my amiga ( 3 diskdrives, 3 MB memory(1 MB chip,
2 MB fast), kick 1.3).
TDP tests the version of kickstart, so it works fine under
kickstart 2.0.
If you have any criticism, error-reports, gifts or something else
write to
Tom Kroener
Richard Wagner Str. 40
D-6602 SB-Dudweiler
GERMANY
So long
--- Tom