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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga serial questions
Message-ID: <4676@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 09:13:56 GMT
References: <8712080543.AA20025@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The Leo Schwab Home for Wayward Computers
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In article <8712080543.AA20025@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	Your [sic] joking, right?  (A) it uses 100% of the CPU, (B) it has been
>done before.... ON A COMMODORE PET!!  That's right, in a tight 6502 loop
>you could create custom characters on the screen.

	You remember that program, too?  Gee, that was many moons ago.  It
came on a Cursor tape, as I recall.  I disassembled to try and find out what
was going on.  After about an hour, it dawned on me what he was up to.  What
a hack!

	The neatest part about it was that, when you were listing a program
on the screen, and it was scrolling away, the "hi-res" window remained in
place.  First-generation layers :-).

>There are more 
>dirty tricks on the Amiga than you can shake a stick at!  Look at RainBench,
>WaveBench, Viacom, etc.... try doing that on an Atari.
>
	Your prejudice is showing....

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