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- On Tue, 15 Jan 1996, Dave Murphy wrote:
-
- > e> The game bangs the hardware directly, therefore I'll be amazed if
- > e> you're able to even start the game with MiNT loaded, let alone use it.
- >
- > But not for these reasons. Bad Mood should run with anything you like
- > loaded provided there's enough memory left! It has been tested with
- > NVDI,FS, Screenblaster,Blowup, the FX accelerator & the Afterburner. As far
- > as Doug & I are concerned compatibility is the name of the game :)
-
- I stand corrected. Yes, it's not difficult to make a demo or a game start
- with MiNT loaded. But using its functions (esp. networking and other
- device drivers) is more or less impossible.
-
- > e> MiNT does some pretty nifty things, but it assumes that it can keep
- > e> control of the machine. The situation is exactly the opposite in Bad
- > e> Mood (in order to make it fast enough to be playable). No way that
- > e> MiNT-net can be used in than kind of environment.
- >
- > Bad Mood takes complete control of the machine in as friendly a way as
- > possible but it will disable any form of multitasking by necessity. The
- > Falcon has enough problems coping with the Doom engine without attempting
- > to multi-task as well.
-
- Isn't that what I said? ;-)
-
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- Elias Martenson
- elias@omicron.se
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