glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) (12/19/90)
In article <185d09ac.ARN0290@spirits.ka.sub.org> rob@spirits.ka.sub.org writes: >In article <2542@wn1.sci.kun.nl>, Olaf Seibert writes: > >> Many of them are translations from German books from the publisher Data >> Becker, and those books have a reputation of containing more incorrect >> than correct information. Unfortunately, unless you already have a lot > >That's true. >One Example: The Big C-Book (AMIGA) from Data Becker > ("Das grosse C-Buch":Bleek/Jennrich/Schulz). [example of incorrect C deleted] > Dead right. And in their book "The Amiga Advanced System Programmers Guide", they have a "wonderful" routine to cleanup the system. In the section they are trying to make the point that everyone should program the Amiga the way C= intended, fair enough, but in their CloseIt routine they have a nice for loop which writes straight to the COLOR00 register to flash the background colour. I hope nobody uses it... -- Matt Crowd Amiga Man Email Address glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au