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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Will somebody fix Delay(0), please?
Message-ID: <5877@well.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 21:13:36 GMT
References: <409@ritcv.UUCP> <2193@antique.UUCP> <2093@munnari.oz> <2347@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Display Hacks, Inc.
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In article <2347@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>In article <2093@munnari.oz> mb@munnari.oz.au (Michael Bednarek) writes:
>>	when, for chrissakes, will somebody fix this bleeding bug?
>Yeah, how about some of you good vector patchers out there?
>You know, write:
>[ some code ]
>  and then patch the Delay vector to FixDelay, after first having
>a copy in BrokenDelay().
>WOuldn't this do it?

	Unfortunately, Delay() is part of the DOS domain, and DOS is immune
to the SetFunction() call, since DOS breaks the rules for library vectors.
So patching Delay() would be non-trivial.

	Jim Goodnow, on the other hand, would be able to do it in his sleep.

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