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- From: idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual
- Message-ID: <6588@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:14:28 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec4.043706.12533@athena.mit.edu> <=m+21=q@rpi.edu> <6416@pdxgate.UUCP> <1992Dec12.193951.27913@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- In article <1992Dec12.193951.27913@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >Some of todays demos may run on an A3000 but just because the demo coder
- >had access to an A3000 and not because he had the manual.
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- The problems that games/demos/etc have with A3000's have nothing to do with
- the chip set! They are problems with idiots writing directly to vector
- bases with out checking the VBR, using self-modifing code, and other general
- stupid stuff. I'll admit, I've done that too, but only when on a tight
- deadline (read: 2 hours left to finish my demo) and didn't have time.
-
- It's not the chips! Maybe people need to also get the Motorola manuals and
- not just the CBM one! You don't see Motorola (warning: what follows is a
- JOKE!) saying, "Stuff seems to break from one chip to another, so let's
- quit documenting them."
-
- - Ian Romanick
- Dancing Fool of Epsilon
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