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- From: Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Going to the metal
- Message-ID: <Jesse_Michael.031z@matrix.rain.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:45:48 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Matrix BBS
- Lines: 49
-
- In a message dated Tue 26 Jan 93 5:39, Mctaylor@mta.ca ("michael C. Taylor
- wrote:
-
- > Well I just read a review of Wing Commander (Amiga version ) and it
- seems
- >nice enough on a stock amiga. Works, it is preferible to have a 14MHZ
- 68000,
- >but then again, if you were running MS-DOS you would need at least 12MHZ
- 286
- >and that feels sluggish.
-
- That's not surprising when you know that a 7.14Mhz 68000 has just about the
- same processing power as a 10Mhz 80286.
-
- >So buy an A1200...Then tell me that $1ff680 or
- >whatever that super-easy to remember address was still works.
- >(Forgot to write it on the back of my hand, is that what you do?)
-
- $dff180 (color 0) works just fine on a A1200.
-
- $dff09a is INTENA.
- $dff01e is INTENAR.
- $dff096 is DMACON.
- $dff002 is DMACONR.
- $dff1dc is BEAMCON0.
- $dff040 is BLTCON0.
- .....
-
- You can either memorize the ones you need (not very difficult), or just use
- the offsets in the include files (which I do anyway).
-
- >It uses enough of the OS to
- >be hard drive installable, works on 68030 and maybe the A4000, the review
- >posted to c.s.a.reviews didn't test it on one. Too bad the sticker didn't
- say
- >on the cover.
-
- And it only uses 16 colors. It's not a very good copy of the clone
- version.
-
- It also isn't any big deal to write "hardware-bashing" code that works on a
- 68030 or an A4000.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
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