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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaBasic Woes...
Message-ID: <2059@trlluna.trl.oz>
Date: 9 Aug 90 23:19:58 GMT
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From article <32569@cup.portal.com>, by Scamper@cup.portal.com (Garen Lee Erdoisa):
> Does anybody out there in the world of the Amiga 2500 know the answers
> or can point me toward the answers.  <Excuse me if this subject has already
> been well thrashed on the net...>
> 
> 1) The Amigabasic version 1.2 editor likes to crash the task it is running
>    on when the Amiga is in the Z68020 mode.  <It works ok using the Z68000

This is because MicroStuffed took liberties with the upper byte of the
four byte address word.  Suddenly on a 68020/030/040 the upper byte
_means_ address, and off to cloud cuckoo land you go.



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