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- From: rreed@terapin.com (Rick Reed)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AGA chipset registers and screenid's
- Message-ID: <rreed.3i9z@terapin.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:31:50 GMT
- References: <38768@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In article <1993Jan24.113304.17393@crash> rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery)
-
- writes:
- >Mark David Simmons (mds@doc.ic.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: Please don't flame my curiosity but I would like to know what the new
- >registers/
- >: bits used in the AGA chipset and what they're used for (I don't want to
- >have
- >to
- >: try to disassemble AmigaDOS 3 to find out - cos I'm curious but lazy 8-).
- >:
- >: Also has anyone got a complete list of ScreenID's (names and no.s)?
- >:
- >: Please (*BEG*) mail me with the information or just a location on an
- >anonymous
- >s
- >: FTP site somewhere where you know these things are to be found (I check
- >amiga.
- >: physik.unizh.ch and nic.funet.fi every day in the hope...)...
- >:
- >
- >As an interesting observation, the AGA version of DPaint IV has a requester
- >that has (among many other things) the DisplayID code for each mode, aspect
- >ratio, sweep rate etc.
-
- This is most likely an ASL Screen Mode Requester which is standard in v38.
-
- -Rick
- rreed@terapin.com
-