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Originally Posted by alkis
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Excuse me maybe a bit ignorant question but does Amiga 500 have a dos.library V36 or above?
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Originally Posted by meynaf
You haven't coded on Windows to say that !
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Maybe. I have just done some coding in the plain Xlib, Fltk, OpenGL. IMHO AmigaOS gives more i/o-paradigms than the mention libraries. I really begin to like AmigaOS and it is sad that I can afford to study it more carefully now.
I have failed to find a way to use console and graphic output in the same window. However using SetDrMd, SetAPen ... allows to customize RasterPort output.
BTW. I'm a bit disappointed that 68000 doesn't have a command to swap bytes in a word. Even ancient PDP-11 has a SWAB instruction for this. 8088 gives you a go like XCHG BL,BH for 4 cycles. For 68000 I have to use ROL #8,D0 for 20 cycles.
EDIT. I have also discovered that shifts and rotates can be applied only to words in memory, this makes a code for such operations for bytes too big and slow. So IMHO for byte operations 8086 maybe has performance close to 68000.