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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <OAHVENLA.92Nov17002933@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:29:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.104025.10090@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov16.130752.18379@imada.ou.dk>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Lines: 20
- In-Reply-To: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:07:52 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov16.130752.18379@imada.ou.dk> breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) writes:
- [...]
- >doesn't release a new Hardware Ref Guide, featuring the AGA
- >chips. As the AGA chips are made available in low-price
- >machines, and hence available to new upcomming coders, there
- >will a massive interest in how to program the chips, and
- >with or without a Guide, they will try. So I say, it is better
- >to release a new Guide, in order to set guidelines and to
- >prevent fatal errors.
-
- This is the whole point. C= won't release the Hardware information, because
- that would mean saying that it's OK to directly access hardware, when it's
- not. They don't, on the other hand, mind if some coder works out the
- addresses from graphics.library, even if he gets them wrong, as everyone, who
- really wants to have his programs work correctly, doesn't use this info.
- Democoders can use it all they want, it's not a big deal if demos crash
- on new computers, they've been crashing left and right since the start.
- --
- Osma Ahvenlampi - oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi * Workstation power for micro-
- All my opinions are not necessarily really mine * computer price: Amiga := FUN
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