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- From: Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <Jesse_Michael.02sl@matrix.rain.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 11:40:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: matrix.Jesse_Michael.02sl
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- Organization: The Matrix BBS
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- In a message dated Sat 26 Dec 92 14:03, Mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-Bonn.mpg.de
- wrote:
-
- >Well, there's nothing wrong about absolute addressing. Every C compiler
- >generates absolute addressing as well. But of course the linker generates
- >a relocation table that enables LoadSeg() to load the program to arbitrary
- >addresses.
-
- It appears that our definitions of "absolute addressing" are a bit
- different...
-
- What I mean is things like--
-
- "The first example sets up a 320 x 200 playfield with one bitplane, which
- is located at $21000. Also, a Copper list is set up at $20000."
-
- And then hardcoding everything off of that.
-
- This is _not_ a good programming practice.
-
- >99% of all demos do not run on my machine unless I take some precautions
- >(like disabling the harddrive, turn off CPU caches, degrader). It is
- nearly
- >impossible to even start a demo from a running system not speaking of
- >returning safely to an OS environment.
-
- How do you know that his demos aren't in that 1%?
-
- You can't unless you've tested them or heard from someone else that they
- weren't.
-
- >Fortunately most demos can't harm my data as they will fail rather soon
- >when trying to patch the interrupt vectors in lower memory :)
-
- There were recently several people asking about how to handle a VBR over in
- FidoNet. There should be more demos that'll work more often pretty soon...
-
- -Jesse
-
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-
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