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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: sprites in 3.0?
- Message-ID: <36741@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:03:31 GMT
- References: <36647@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov4.155211.24914@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 29
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- Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
- >Jesup) writes:
- >> I've written a trivial little hack (which is NOT guaranteed to work
- >>in future versions of the OS) which does most of an UnEnlighten. It doesn't
-
- >Thanks, Randell. I guess. Hmmm. Are you sure this is a good idea?
- >Can't we finally let bad programs die? Do we really want hackers to
- >get RunECS and start playing fancy AGA tricks that break more things
- >down the road? I hate to lose a neat program as much as the next guy,
- >but The Rules have been well-known for a long time now. Perhaps this
- >is a good time to raise the level of expectation...
-
- Yes, well, I must admit that I had to think about it a bit. However,
- there is a fairly large win from this, and even very well-conforming brand-
- new programs (such as Megafortress) have had problems due to things like
- 4x mode requiring 32-bit alignments of bitplane pointers.
-
- Also, this still doesn't hide that fact that the program got it wrong,
- since the user must run the program using Run_ECS. You can do this anyways
- without run_ecs by rebooting and selecting ECS chipset in graphics options in
- bootmenu. That is also a bit of a cop-out, but we needed to have it there
- to avoid losing lots of our installed base.
-
- --
- To be or not to be = 0xff
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-