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- From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.095346.270@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov15.104025.10090@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov16.130752.18379@imada.ou.dk> <OAHVENLA.92Nov17002933@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:53:46 GMT
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- oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:
-
- >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
-
- This goes for nearly everybody in xxx.amiga.programmers: I simply can't
- understand why C= will not support the amiga-purchasers with the information
- needed to control their machine in any way they want! Seems like the old
- Russia to me, keeping information away from the public... I expect that soon
- the demoscene will switch to other brands like PC (with DOCUMENTED VGA...),
- ATARI FALCON, and this goes for me; ARCHIMEDES... But some of us will also
- keep the amiga and write demos.
-
- >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
-
- Great! I'm looking forward to the hardware reference guide which will
- eventually be released by some guy(s)
-
- >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.
-
- In the start they didn't crash (only one config, remember?)... And btw:
- WE DON'T CARE if our demos crash on your A50000000 with 13478345 megs of
- fastram and megavideocard or trash your laserprinter! You know why? We write
- them to ENJOY OURSELVES! _NOT_ to entertain rich bastards like those.
-
- >--
- >Osma Ahvenlampi - oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi * Workstation power for micro-
- >All my opinions are not necessarily really mine * computer price: Amiga := FUN
- ^^^
- FUN := DEMOS , *NOT* := OS-friendly spreadsheets
-
- SLAMMER / ANARCHY
- Carsten Soerensen
- u920659@daimi.aau.dk
-
- The opinions herein are mine. And flame me if you want
-
-
-