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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!lysator.liu.se!marvil
  3. From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
  4. Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
  5. Message-ID: <1926@lysator.liu.se>
  6. Sender: news@lysator.liu.se
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ruben.lysator.liu.se
  8. Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
  9. References: <1992Nov2.201536.9913@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Nov4.134857.24783@sth.frontec.se>
  10. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:26:53 GMT
  11. Lines: 10
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  13. bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
  14.  
  15. >It's been the same thing with all the new Amigas now, A500->A3000,
  16. >A3000->A4000 etc. Lot's of software doesn't work, partly because is goes
  17. >directly on the hardware instead of following CBM guidelines.
  18.  
  19. Up to now, you _are_ allowed to program the hardware directly, but too many
  20. people do it the wrong way, that's why so many programs don't work on newer
  21. machines. If they had followed the rules, it wouldn't have happened.
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