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- From: eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eivind Eklund)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.030429.22175@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1858@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> <1992Nov4.162017.20291@imada.ou.dk> <1992Nov5.184557.17342@sth.frontec.se>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 03:04:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.184557.17342@sth.frontec.se> bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
- >breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) writes:
- >>`ample speed' huh? What if you still own an old and slow Amiga (which is what
- >>the majority of the game-playing people do) ? Sure, the software will run nice
- >>and smoothly on the new machines, but imagine running an `access-to-the-
- >>hardware-through-the-OS-only' game on an old machine.
- >
- >You're forgetting something here.
- >There *ARE* no old, slow machines with this hardware (AGA) and there won't
- >ever be any with less than a 68020 inside, which will guarantee 'ample speed'
- >for your code.
-
- The problem is that I want my code to run on older machines too. SO - I
- need some doc on how to find out wether the machine is running the older
- chipset etc... What I really would like, was to know how to set the
- machine back to run in ECS mode for the duration of my demo. And check
- wether there is an ECS compatible mode on that machine - if not to jsut
- stop the running. Come on, CBM, a request for the docs for a function to
- check what chipset and set it back to ECS mode can't be that hard?
- (This way, things that DO hit the HW can be made to work on those machines
- it CAN work on...)
-
- Eivind Eklund aka Vishnu CRB
- eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu Phone: +47-(0)-9-944946 (BBS. shout to get ME!)
-