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- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!m2xenix!agora!nesbbx!key880!jdm
- From: jdm@key880.rain.com (Jesse Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <jdm.3072@key880.rain.com>
- Distribution: Net
- References: <1992Dec28.111514.10677@kth.se>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:52:48 PST
- Organization: the key880 bulletin board system
- Lines: 24
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- In <1992Dec28.111514.10677@kth.se> ludde@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
- writes:
-
- > >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
- >
- > On the contrary, I think it was a very good decision. Not hampering
- > hardware development by enforcing register level compability is a good
- > move.
-
- Actually, as a friend of mine noted, I think the _REAL_ reason their not
- releasing the hardware specs is so people won't see what a kludge it is.
-
- 2 moves to the same register to set the color in 24 bit mode?!? Come on!
-
- -Jesse
-
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