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- From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <36818@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:55:34 GMT
- References: <1858@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> <1992Nov4.162017.20291@imada.ou.dk> <1992Nov5.184557.17342@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov9.030429.22175@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Nov9.030429.22175@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eivind Eklund) writes:
- >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...)
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- To get some approximation of ECS mode before taking over the
- hardware, call LoadView(NULL) followed by 2 WaitTOF()s.
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