Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!tut!mt87692 From: mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Accessing the Chips directly Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 00:30:45 GMT References: <2205@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@assari.tut.fi (USENET News System) Organization: Tampere University of Technology Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 9 Nov 90 20:17:59 GMT > It will still be an Amiga as long as Amiga programs run on it. The designers of > the hardware and OS do not consider ill-conceived hacks and kludges to be Amiga > programs. CBM has laid down the rules you need to follow to remain compatible, > and if you decide to ignore them, your program will break. SImple. > -larry Check out Hardware Programming Guidelines from RKM libraries and Devices (ISBN 0-201-18187-8) and you'll see it's legal to use direct hardware registers. MIT -- Lets buy a dog!