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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!viper!news
- From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin)
- Subject: Re: Going to the metal
- Sender: news@visix.com
- Message-ID: <C0p5H0.Kvr@visix.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:53:24 GMT
- Reply-To: brett@visix.com
- References: <1993Jan10.210707.12797@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Organization: Visix Software, Reston, Virginia
- Lines: 40
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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).
-
- Well, I have no idea if there were any comments to my previous post about
- my game kernel (worked a full 10 hours to rebuild our gateway machine that
- pulls over our news, just to find, because of one missing symbolic link,
- threw away all the news after getting it from our news host. Arrggghh!)
- but my kernel is like your "hardware banger support library", only
- difference is the machine no longer runs any part of AmigaOS.
-
- I look at it as an "alternative OS" for programming gams on the Amiga (and
- SEGA). I haven written a full programming manual which describes the basic
- goals for the "OS", principles for using it, all the entry points and
- arguments, and all memory uses.
-
- Having Host->Target based debugging really helps me develop my software,
- allowing me to see, edit, re-assemble source files, will still running my
- code on the target.
-
- Now if I could write something like this (with some initial help from a
- very good Amiga programmer, Mike Schwartz), C= could create a "BIOS-type"
- library that could handle the hardware-banging, that would be used by
- graphics.library, audio.device, serial.device, etc.
-
- Insulate the hardware -- thats fine, just don't require many layers above
- the hardware if you can.
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