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- * Copyright 1988 Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- * This information is provided "as is"; no warranties are made. All
- * use is at your own risk. No liability or responsibility is assumed.
- * Permission granted to reproduce, provided this notice remains.
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- IMPORTANT !
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- Official Warning to Rom-Jumpers, Structure-Hackers, and Others
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- From Commodore Engineering, Commodore-Amiga, and C.A.T.S.
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- We who bring you the Amiga want to make it perfectly clear that
- if you don't follow the rules, you WILL break.
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- The following practices are NOT supported !
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- - Jumping directly to ROM code
- - Modifying or depending on private system structures
- - Depending on the addresses of system structures or free memory
- - Ignoring hardware or software interfacing specifications
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- Do not jump into ROM. Beware of any example code that calls routines
- in the $F80000 to $FFFFFF range. Those are ROM addresses and those ROM
- routines WILL move. The only supported interface to system ROM code
- is through the provided library, device, and resource calls.
-
- Do not modify or depend on the format of the private system structures.
- This includes the poking of copper lists, memory lists, and library bases.
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- Do not depend on any address containing any particular system structure
- or type of memory. The system modules dynamically allocate their memory
- space when they are initialized. The addresses of system structures and
- buffers differ with every OS, every model, and every configuration, as
- does the amount of free memory and system stack usage.
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- If you are using the system libraries, devices, and resources, you
- must follow the defined interface. Assembler programmers (and compiler
- writers) must enter functions through the library base jump tables,
- with arguments passed as longs and library base address in A6. Results
- returned in D0 must be tested, and the contents of D0-D0/A0-A1 must be
- assumed gone after a system call. Do not use the TAS instruction.
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- Do not use assembler instructions which are priviledged on any
- 68000 family processor. All addresses must be 32 bits. Do not use
- the upper 8 bits for other data. Do not execute code on your stack
- or put shared system or DOS structures on your stack. And do not use
- processor dependent software timimg loops for delays.
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- If you are programming at the hardware level, you must follow hardware
- interfacing specifications. All hardware is NOT the same. Do not assume
- that low level hacks for speed or copy protection will work on all drives,
- or all keyboards, or all systems, or future systems.
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- Software distributers who purchase or contract software from
- outside programmers must make sure that the programmers are aware
- of correct programming practices and are providing software which
- will not break on different machines or different OS revisions.
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- We are dedicated to enhancing and expanding the capabilities of
- the Amiga hardware and software, while maintaining compatibility
- wherever possible for those who follow the rules. Those who don't
- follow the rules cans consider themselves warned.
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