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- From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Determing if an address is in chip mem.
- Message-ID: <38709@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:22:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.201823@informatik.uni-kl.de>
- Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1993Jan20.201823@informatik.uni-kl.de> c_feck@informatik.uni-kl.de (Christop Feck) writes:
- TypeOfmem() has been there since 1.0.
-
- >I'm pretty sure that this is new for OS 3.0. Since I'm not a registered developer,
- >but also want to write programs, which are >3.0 compatible, it would be very
- >appreciated, if somebody could send/post a list with all facts to be aware of, if
- >writing software. Thinks like "you find the size of the rom in address 0x00ff????"
- >are really not the most compatible way. Any other things to consider when writing
- >'future compatible' software? (apart from NEW functions, such as palette sharing
- >etc. I really couldn't ask you to send me 4.0 includes & autodocs :-)
- >
- >I really like it, if C= tries to follow the rule 'power over compatibility', but
- >it would be very nice, if they would constantly release facts about correct usage
- >of the OS. I've seen something like 'Dont use "Screen->BitMap"' in the newiff
- >release on some Fish disk.
- >
-
- The "dont use Screen->BitMap" referes to the fact that the imbedded BitMap
- in the screen structure only has room for 8 bitplanes. The work-around is
- to use Screen->RastPort.BitMap.--
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