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- From: turner@niksula.hut.fi (Nicklas Andersson)
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- In-Reply-To: njale@dhhalden.no's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:06:37 GMT
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:03:34
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- > By hardware-tricks most people mean calling/reffering to absolute
- > adresses in the rom.
-
- Eh? What people? Not those who know what they talk about
- anyway.
-
-
- > By the way, turning off the C64's border re-drawing, wich is a few
- > bytes of code, can hardly be called forcing the machine to do things
- > it shouldn't.
-
- According to Commodore, the only thing you could change about
- the border was it's colour and size, so therefore removing it
- alltogether was a real neat trick. And although removing the
- border from the top and bottom was quite easy, I'd really like
- to see how you removed the sideborder with just "a few bytes
- of code".
-
-
- > Making the Amiga sound like it has more than four voices, or fast
- > moving HAM-games are much more of that theme.
-
- If you mean that it is a hardware trick to make it sound
- like more voices than you've actually got, then surely it
- must be a just as great a trick to increse the number of
- lines displayed.
-
- And what exactly does HAM games have to do with hardware
- tricks? It's just a question of writing fast code, that's
- all.
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