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- From: borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest)
- Subject: Re: The compatibility story (Falcon & A1200)
- References: <1993Jan10.171538.26344@news.uit.no> <1993Jan11.120754@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1itud1INNg96@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:02:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.180221.507@news.uit.no>
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- In article <1itud1INNg96@life.ai.mit.edu> psteffn@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Steffen) writes:
- >There is no way to disable the new AA [AGA] functions in the 1200.
-
- Say what?
- You can chose OCS, ECS, (or best) (O=old,E=Enhanced) to make old software
- work if it craps on the new registers.
-
- > Software
- >that changes the wrong bit in the bitplane control registers can still cause
- >problems. It's ironic, though, that Commodore threatens never to release
- >another hardware manual, though. They want people to program "cleanly" but
- >this be counterproductive.
-
- I think it is very wise of C=. Then there will not be any way for
- programmers to crash when the chips are upgraded. Of course, this depends
- on good (and fast) support from the OS.
-
- >> | David Oakley, ASTRAsoft shareware producers. |\
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- #Disclaimer: This university and me does not agree.
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