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- From: larshaug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth)
- Subject: hardware-hacks, illegal??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.123752.12074@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: larshaug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1dg7r7INNjil@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov7.203516.9849@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dhp99INNqn5@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov8.050234.20202@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dj1sqINNetk@gap.caltech.edu> <1946@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:37:52 GMT
- Lines: 44
- Originator: larshaug@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <1946@lysator.liu.se>, marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- > keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
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- > >That's because so little has changed... besides, somehow I doubt that
- > >the demos (which emply many hardware tricks) will work so well on the
- > >A4000. Many of them won't even run on my 3000...
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- > Amiga demos does NOT do many "hardware tricks", as the Amiga hardware
- > can't be fooled to do things it shouldn't, as the hardware of the C64,
- > which has lots of "features" (such as border sprites etc.). The Amiga
- > hardware is well documented (until now with the AA chipset), so hardware
- > coding is legal, as long as you do it the right way.
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- You mean it was illegal on the C64? 8-)
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- dec $d016
- inc $d016
- nop
- nop
- nop
- nop
- nop
- nop
- nop
- nop
- dec $d016
- inc $d016
- nop
- nop
- .
- .
- ... and so on... 8)
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- | Lars Haugseth +-+
- | Dept. of Informatics, <larshaug@ifi.uio.no> | |
- | University of Oslo, Norway | |
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