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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Subject: Re: Future A4000 Demos
- In-Reply-To: leifv@dhhalden.no's message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:04:31 GMT
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- Date: 06 Nov 92 13:44:23 GMT
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- In article <leifv.43.720979471@dhhalden.no> leifv@dhhalden.no (LEIF HUGO VARUM) writes:
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- >Just don't get your hopes up for a AGA demo that uses all the 256 color
- >registers, the 64bit sprites, etc., unless you go through the OS
- >(graphics.library and intuition.library). There is no documentation on the
- >new hardware.
- Not yet...It shouldn't take long to find some new register addresses. The
- question is: Who will find/use them first? :)
-
- And is it worth it? For all we know, they might not be the same even on A1200
- and A4000, and definitely will change again. I think making incompatible code
- when it could be made compatible is worse than having less colors or slightly
- slower operation.
- --
- Osma Ahvenlampi - oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi
- This article does not necessarily represent anyone's opinions, not even mine.
- If you are offended by this article, be so in silence. I am not interested.
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