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From: wendell@medsys.UUCP (bbs amiga user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Denise/Paula/Agnus/Gary/Portia
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Date: 4 Aug 89 21:57:58 GMT
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Good idea, and I'd say it would almost work... Most productivity software
would work the way you've outlined it I assume. The only things that would
break in large numbers are commercial games. (Seems that way with everything
else: HD's, 010/020's, more ram...). A LOT of the game programmers skip
right by the standard AmigaDos library calls, and address the disk drives,
custom chips, etc.. directly thru their registers. Plug in a different
blitter, and the registers will be totally different. All Non-Standard
code would probably die.... Too bad, the Amiga's shared library scheme
is the best I've seen on any micro. American, Canadian, etc... productivity
programmers agree, and use the standard library calls. It's the European
game programmers that kick out the Operating System first thing. shame...

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Wendell Dingus
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