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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: IDCMP ports
Summary: manual opening?
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Date: 13 Feb 89 23:26:05 GMT
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Reply-To: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
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Some people have mentioned IDCMP ports lately -- "just open the first
window and use the initialize IDCMP port in it" -- but what if you're
not using Intuition?  I'm creating my own view and viewports.

the amiga ROM manual i've read includes things like -- "if an application
takes control of the machine, and doesn't open intuition, then it can
use the left game port -- otherwise it will be conflicting with the
input.device" 

how can you tell if input.device is running?  does it make a difference
if the program is started with the WB or from a CLI?

any help or pointers to help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
michael j zehr