rudolpe@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Eric Hans Rudolph) (06/01/91)
Oops! Forgot to mention! Amigas are the best in the West. To be sure, they kick everything else to aitch-ee-double toothpicks. They're one of the most hacked most worked on machines I've ever seen. I love 'em. It's just that there's a hole for something better. Who gets it, wins. I learned to use the OS Calls correctly and it's a comparative breeze. My advice to programmers::: Don't be lazy. I still can't get the kind of speed I want on BattleZone, but Oh well. Just too damn slow. Here's a MAJOR question that makes me think of C64... When I trash my memory, sometimes my characters on the screen get HUGE, like some giant scaled bitmap. Why???? I see no references in documentation that descibe THAT effect at all! Are there hardware side effects that no ones telling me about? thanks again.
ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (06/01/91)
In article <1991Jun01.043127.24852@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> rudolpe@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Eric Hans Rudolph) writes: [...] >Here's a MAJOR question that makes me think of C64... When I trash my >memory, sometimes my characters on the screen get HUGE, like some giant scaled >bitmap. Why???? I see no references in documentation that descibe THAT effect at all! >Are there hardware side effects that no ones telling me about? It's racial memory. When you treat the Amiga like a C-64 by poking all over its memory, it harkens back to it's hindbrain and puts up a C-64 display. >thanks again. Sure, no problem! :-) -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |