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Re: Accessing the Chips directly

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From: Larry Phillips
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 10:12
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In <MT87692.90Nov12013045@uikku.tut.fi>, mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes:
>> It will still be an Amiga as long as Amiga programs run on it. The designers of
>> the hardware and OS do not consider ill-conceived hacks and kludges to be Amiga
>> programs. CBM has laid down the rules you need to follow to remain compatible,
>> and if you decide to ignore them, your program will break. SImple.
>
>> -larry
>
> Check out Hardware Programming Guidelines from RKM libraries and Devices
> (ISBN 0-201-18187-8) and you'll see it's legal to use direct hardware
>registers.

Well, I am not about to read it from cover to cover to try to spot what you are
referring to. Care to point it out by reference to a specific operation, page
number etc.? Our definitions of 'direct reference' and 'legal to use' may
differ considerably.

>Lets buy a dog!

My cat agrees.. she says "Yum yum".

-larry

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