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- From: tomasa@dront.nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.023515.5797@kth.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 02:35:15 GMT
- References: <92329.140836K3023E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <1992Dec27.154736.23376@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Dec27.192924.2501@ugle.unit.no>
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- In <1992Dec27.192924.2501@ugle.unit.no> mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen) writes:
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-
- >But, here's a potential problem for the Amiga gameindustry: people
- >bothering to learn coding on the MC680x0 chipset will be dramatically
- >reduced if CBM don't release a HRM for the AGA chipset.
-
- Those two issuses have nothing, or at least very little, to do with each
- other.
-
- >When amateur coders start programming (often inspired by the eurodemos
- >or games) they want something to happen on screen with as little
- >effort as possible. Coding dirty and directly to the hardware means
- >that the coder just have to know the basic principles of machinecode,
- >the RAM- structure on the Amiga, the conversion between numbersystems
- >and a few other things.
-
- Quite true but for that you don't need a hardware reference manual
- covering the AGA chipset. The current hardware reference manuals cover
- enough of the chipset for that. Remember; The AGA chipset is fully
- compatible with all previous chipsets.
-
- >Commodore Amiga has made, and makes, lots of mistakes. Deciding not
- >to release a reference manual for the AGA-chipset would probably be
- >one of their greatest to date.
-
- It's probably the best thing they have ever done. It will make it easier
- to create new chipsets or extend the existing one without having a large
- part of the software base stop working.
-
- >This decision is like spitting in the face on a huge part of their
- >userbase.
-
- Then the "huge" part of the userbase probably deserves it as it was
- they who made it neccessary...
-
- >Morten
-
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- Tomas Arvidson ///
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- Tomas Arvidson ///
- d91tar@csd.uu.se, ///
- tomasa@nada.kth.se, tomasa@sprawl.adsp.sub.org \\\///
- Expressed opinions are mine unless stated otherwise \XX/
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