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From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: A590 problems
Message-ID: <271cfba7-999.12comp.sys.amiga.tech-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 18 Oct 90 02:03:11 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.193142.13719@ecst.csuchico.edu> <995@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.n
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>Resp: 11 of 11 About: A590 problems
><995@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl> [A.J. van Rooijen] (*Masked*@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl)
>The reason I ask this is that I know that the A590 does something with
>location 0. In my opinion it should not do that, ie the Imploder will just
>hang up if the location isn't zero. To run it I will have to clear the
>location first. This indicates that normally, the location is 0. On other
>systems with hardcards the location is always 0.


Well, just FYI .. the REASON that some software breaks is usually that the
programmer of that software has a pointer bug.

So if a program will not run with location 0 being ANY value in particular ,
then it is that programmers fault, not the A590's.

Report this to the manufacturer. It is a bug.

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