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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re:  Video resolutions
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Date: 23 May 91 05:35:29 GMT
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In article <mmm.1437@reaper.Chi.IL.US> mmm@reaper.Chi.IL.US (Michael Marvin Morrison) writes:
>In article <1991May22.001929.1579@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>In article <1991May20.165654.10048@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
>>>
>>>	By the way, what's the best book for finding out exactly what
>>>	memory registers to tickle to access video and sound on the
>>>	Amiga? Don't seem to be many .h files with helpful hints. B^(.
>>>
>>	Get the Rom Kernal Manuals. Simple.
>
>For Amiga Unix, you probably want the Amiga Hardware Ref.  'Libraries and Devices'
>would more than likely not do an Amiga Unix person much good, as they relate to
>AmigaDos/Exec instead of the hardware goodies that Rob wants.  What kind of
>arbitration of the hardware is done under Unix?  The reason I ask is because
>I am sure that most of the same restrictions apply under Unix as under AmigaDos.
>(ie: no banging the hardware if the System owns it)
>
	Whoops! Forgot what newsgroup I was in! Sorry...

>>>		-Rob
>>>-- 
>>>
>>>Rob Healey                                          rhealey@digibd.com
>>
>>Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
>>Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
>>I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
>>How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin
>
>--
>Michael M Morrison              /|                             |\
>mmm@reaper.chi.il.us <or>      | |     Cold Steel on Ice       | |
>reaper!mmm@miroc.chi.il.us      \|                             |/


Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin