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From: rudolpe@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Eric Hans Rudolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <1991May22.193016.12202@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 22 May 91 19:30:16 GMT
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I am programming the game BattleZone for the Amiga. I have the whole thing
written in Lattice C and it is slow, even optimized. With 5 or so tanks on
the screen and n missiles, and full 20 object rotations, it gets bogged 
down. Now if I go in and mess around with hardware registers and blitter stuff,
I will be pretty much machine dependant on some things. I hear tell that the
people who do this are idiots. I don't really see a way around it. For teh
conversion, I am using system calls like AllocMem and AllocRaster, but as
for the blitter line drawing routines, it's all machine register "poking"
Can someone clarify me on what people hate about hardware register software
hacking? I don't think I can get the speed...


rudolpe@jacobs.cs.orst.edu