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- From: spc@pineal.math.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner)
- Subject: HostileTakeOver of Amiga OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.193325.11793@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
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- Summary: How to take over the OS
- Keywords: flame bait lives here
- Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, but who cares?
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:33:25 GMT
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- (donning asbestos long johns in preparation of a potential flame-a-rama)
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- I'm currently trying to write some code to take over the Amiga system from
- the OS, do what ever I want to the hardware, and then return the system back
- to the OS in as much of the same state as it was before I took it over.
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- So, what I'm wanting to know, is what exactly do I need to do to (in as
- friendly a mannor as possible) to take over the system from the OS. Code
- fragments (in any language) would be nice, as well as possible
- warnings/cavets/etc ... that may be required.
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- The system I'm doing this on is an Amiga 500 running 1.3 with 3M RAM (512K
- of that is chip) and a 50M harddrive.
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- I have some code to take over the machine, but one fragment comes from a
- commercial quality game (written by a professional game writer as a tutorial
- on writing games for the Amiga), and the other from one of the (not that I
- want to use this, mind you) Abacus books. I was wondering if there were any
- 'better' ways of taking over the machine than just to disable all DMA and
- interrupts and then running amok in the system 8-)
-
- Thanks in advance (and I may even post the routines when I write them if
- there is sufficient interest in it).
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- -spc (And yes, I do respect the OS and appreciate it, but sometimes, I
- would like to hit the hardware and not worry about the OS at all)
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