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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Testing for 1.3 VS. 2.0
Message-ID: <918@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 91 13:56:51 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.234836.1@happy.colorado.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Feb20.234836.1@happy.colorado.edu> kskelm@happy.colorado.edu writes:
>
>  What is the simplest way for a program to automatically detect whether
>it is running under 1.3 or 2.0?

Just do an OpenLibrary("graphics.library",36). If it fails (==0)
then you run pre-2.0. This library should be in Kickstart ROM on
every Amiga model. (I hope also in future? Should one better choose
exec or dos library?)

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