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- From: eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eivind Eklund)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.155715.8117@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov10.135706.383@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov10.151105.9806@ifi.uio.no> <37006@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:57:15 GMT
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- In article <37006@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.151105.9806@ifi.uio.no> nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen) writes:
- >>What is the problem anyway? In fact, I was quite impressed by the number of
- >>demos that would actually run on the 4000 in ECS mode.
- >
- >The fact that BootMenu allows you to boot into ECS mode is basically a
- >kludge that's required by the number of programs that err when they hit
- >the hardware directly.
-
- Then tell us how to do it properly. Post a startup routine taking over
- the entire machine for hitting the HW, guaranteed to work on all Amigas
- coming up (Or at least all with an ECS compatible mode), allowing us to hit
- the HW a of the ECS definition. If you don't have one, I have one that
- should be pretty nice, which I can mail you and you can fix...
-
- Eivind Eklund AKA Vishnu CRB
- eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu or phone +47-(0)-9-944946 (BBS, shout to get ME)
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