Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Accessing the Chips directly Message-ID: <2219@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 12 Nov 90 10:12:29 GMT Lines: 30 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes: >> 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. Well, I am not about to read it from cover to cover to try to spot what you are referring to. Care to point it out by reference to a specific operation, page number etc.? Our definitions of 'direct reference' and 'legal to use' may differ considerably. >Lets buy a dog! My cat agrees.. she says "Yum yum". -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+