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From: BBOURBIN@UMDD.BITNET (Brett S Bourbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Intuition Shutdown
Message-ID: <8804181807.AA15039@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 88 17:36:34 GMT
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I have just switched from doing all my work on the Amiga in assembly to 'C'
and assembly mixture.  I want to write a system (read: GAME) that will take
over the system, not multitasking, but uses all system calls and does not
go to the hardware.  I want to keep compatibility with future Amigas along
with being able to port it to other machines, if I wish.

Now comes the question:  I have disabled the Intuition Handler (set the
SetMPort to -1) and I am using port 2 for joystick input.  After thinking
about it for awhile, I realized that this method still keeps the Intuition
Handler running and also taking up memory.  It will also intercept any of
the keyboard messages (Amiga-arrows, etc).  I don't want to waste more
more memory to write code to intercept the input devices before Intuition
get a hold of them, instead I wish to shut down Intuition TOTALLY and
take it from there.  Can I FindTask(mytask) and issue a CloseDevice() to
the input.device and return the memory allocated for the handler?

I want to keep compatibility but I do not need the overhead.

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