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- 0 AMIGA C MANUAL - "SYSTEM"
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- 0.1 INTRODUCTION
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- This is the fourth manual of the Amiga C Encyclopedia. This
- manual describes how the operating system and hardware are
- working, and how to use the AmigaDOS file system. Information
- about how to create and use the special system lists, and how
- programs can communicate with each other with help of messages,
- are also covered. Some easy but a bit dirty input routines are
- as well explained.
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- 0.2 CHAPTERS
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- Here is a list of the chapters in this manual:
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- 1. Hardware This chapter gives a brief introduction
- into the hardware of the Amiga, and the
- different Amiga models are explained.
- I also describe how to use the hardware
- and how to directly read and modify the
- hardware registers in a naughty but not
- forbidden way. 2 examples are included.
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- 2. AmigaDOS Explains how to use the AmigaDOS file
- system. Everything from opening, reading
- and writing files to how to protect your
- data from being corrupted by other tasks
- is explained. 8 examples are included.
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- 3. Lists Describes the special list routines in
- the Amiga. Although your programs will
- usually never directly use these routines
- they are used by most parts of the
- operating system and are therefore good
- to know about. These list routines are
- very easy to use but still very powerful,
- and can with favour be used if needed.
- 3 examples are included.
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- 4. Messages Interesting chapter about how programs
- can send messages to each other. Very
- useful and interesting chapter.
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- 5. Dirty Input This chapter contains four rather "dirty"
- input routines. They use the hardware
- registers to collect information about the
- joystick, mouse, keyboard, or analogue
- joystick. These routines hit the hardware,
- but since they use some global system
- structures to get the hardware registers
- they are still "allowed" to be used. Very
- fast and easy to use, perfect for small
- utilities and games.
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- 0.3 CHAPTER PICTURES
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- In the directory "ChapterPictures" you will find a collection
- of 5 pictures. These pictures are supposed to be printed and
- put in front of each chapter in this manual.
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