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- From: spc@pineal.math.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner)
- Subject: Re: Going to the metal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.210707.12797@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Keywords: Trash OS
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- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, but who cares?
- References: <1993Jan2.130221.29789@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <mXgswB1w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <1993Jan3.144042.11579@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:07:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.144042.11579@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >
- >What I meant was that a 'hardware banger support library' as was suggested
- >but which comes in lots of flavours is not acceptable. It is very likely
- >that some program (game or demo or the like) will require a specific version
- >(due to side effects or bugs in the version of the library that the programmer
- >used).
- >
- But is that any different than some program requiring a particular
- version of the Exec library, or a particular version of the dos.library
- (more and more programs are now requiring 2.x versions of this library)?
-
- I guess that if the 'hardware banger support library' is written well
- enough, then some 'game or demo' program will be able to get by with any
- version (like many programs can get by on 1.3 or 2.x systems).
-
- >Look at the number of slightly incompatible MOD players out there to
- >get an idea of the problem.
- >
- What do you mean by that? Does this mean that there are mod players out
- there where player A can play mod X, but player B can't?
-
- -spc (Is it me, or is it getting hot in here?)
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