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- From: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese)
- Subject: What kind of hardware? (was Re: New hardware reference guide?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.124937.26690@imada.ou.dk>
- Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System)
- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov9.202005.13562@sth.frontec.se>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:49:37 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- This was previously part of the "New hardware reference guide" discussion,
- but as this isn't about whether C= should release a hardware reference
- guide or not, I decided to change the subject line.
-
- 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...)
-
- This gave two answers:
-
- bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
- > You don't really mean you want hard core hardware specs just to CHECK for
- > the hardware, do you?
- > There are (OS) routines for checking things like that. Please surprise me
- > with a reason why these routines wouldn't be good enough.
-
- Which routines? I may be an ignorant fool, but I honestly don't know.
-
- chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) writes:
- > To get some approximation of ECS mode before taking over the
- >hardware, call LoadView(NULL) followed by 2 WaitTOF()s.
-
- This may be common knowledge, but what happens if I do as said, and
- how will I know the result (look at the screen??) Approximation?
- How about AGA?
-
- In short: How do I, using the OS, check what kind of hardware (CPU
- and chipset) is in use on an arbitrary Amiga?
-
- Could someone please answer? We are some people who actually are
- concerned about how we get our games/demos to run without crashing.
-
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- Bjoern Reese | Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
- Odense University, Denmark | Voice: +45 65 932 182 (private)
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