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From: ee173way@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: gameport.device
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 12:22:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 12:22:11 1987
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Reply-To: ee173way@sdcc3.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
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Keywords: gameport joystick cleanup arrrrgggg


  While casually looking over the memory map diagram of the Amiga, I
realized that if they change the layout of the custom chips
(starting at $DFF000), *everything* is going to get changed
(obviously), hardware auto-config, 8520's, etc. Therefore, I am
going to leave my joystick routine as-is.  If new machines come out
that have new, incompatible hardware to the A1000, these machines
will most certainly have more goodies to take advantage of, so a new
version would be a must anyway. The A2000 is harware compatible
(custom chip adress-wise), and new machines are while away, so...

  By the way, the new TDI Modula-2 compiler finally arrived. Takes
full advantage of 1.2.  But it has one minor bug, it blows up after
a successful compile of my final Module, while writing out the .lnk
file.  See, my compiler won't even work on the current machines
hardware (8^& ...

  Worse comes to worse I'll finish it in their earlier compiler,
unless they get their latest bugs exterminated. What a bummer. All
that money, all that wait, for what...


  John
  7OHN