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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.023341.27459@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:33:41 GMT
- References: <Bx7782.CKD@kingston.ac.uk> <1992Nov5.184916.17436@sth.frontec.se> <1927@lysator.liu.se> <BxAMtH.Aos@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1950@lysator.liu.se>
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- In <1950@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- >Coding the hardware is, if not easier to do, easier to learn. And you don't
- >need lots of expensive books for it either. And it is actually harder to
- >follow the rules of OS programming than the rules of hardware programming,
- >so OS-coded demos will _not_ work better than hardware coded ones. Most
- >demo coders are not the persons to follow rules.
-
- The last sentence is the whole truth.
-
- > (And I am a demo coder as well, and have played around a bit with the OS
- >and Intuition, so I know what I'm talking about.)
-
- >>The fact is, what ever you can do in the OS in 4 frames using the OS, a good
- >>demo programmer would probably do in 100 raster lines, and make it work on
- >>any machine.
-
- >Yes, that's right.
-
- This is hardly right. In most cases you will end with a program that
- a) runs on some machines only (most likely A500's and A3000's with no expansion)
- b) crashes with a new OS version or when started from system that is booted further
- than the initial CLI.
- c) does generate bogus displays on either NTSC or PAL systems.
- d) risks hardware damage with things connected to the serial or parallel port.
-
- Ah, yes.. that's my experience with the creations from "demo coders".
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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