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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Difficulty in programming
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Date: 3 Jun 90 20:06:00 GMT
References: <2487@zipeecs.umich.edu> <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-1ei@e260-2f (Joseph Chung) writes:
>Try this one on for size:
>
>In an IBM (no flames please!), if I want to put a character anywhere on the
>screen, I just
>1. load a segment register with the segment of the screen.
>2. write the proper byte to the screen location (using a simple offset) (In
>short, is a basic POKE command!)
>
>How would you accomplish this in an Amiga?
>Let's see.
>1. Create my own screen, or should it be my window (damn, where did I put
>    my copy of NewWindow struct ...)

You must admit that was not a great example.


On both IBM (clone) systems and the Amiga, in C, you
can open a file to the console and use ANSI control sequences for input
and output; in fact one program can be written which will work equally
well on both the IBM and the Amiga.  (And further, you can be more sure
that the program will work correctly on the Amiga because there's no
prerequisite that the user choose to install the ANSI.SYS screen
driver.)
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