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- From: ry41@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Moellemann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 13:22:20 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- In article <6416@pdxgate.UUCP>, idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) writes:
- >The difference is that with a
- >manual people will know the right way to do it! The idea behind having a
- >manual is to prevent the complaints of, "Hey, this (what ever) doesn't work
- >on my machine!"
-
- No. There is a lot of stuff (games or tracker, not demos) which run if
- I reset the VBR and deactivate caches. And C= stated in all exec manuals
- (at least up from 1.1):
- "Do not use self modifying code, do not use tight loops for timing and
- the IntVecs may move on 68010 or higher."
-
- The people just ignore that. So it doesn't matter if you give them the
- info or not. They have to learn it the hard way.
-
- >You'll notice that a lot of the stuff that really breaks is older stuff.
-
- Is Populous II "older stuff" ?
-
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