| [News] Merlancia explains the Torro series | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 22-Oct-2000 10:02 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 23 comments
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Here's an announcement from Merlancia answering to the doubts expressed towards their Torro series of computers.
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| Merlancia explains the Torro series : Comment 10 of 23 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by gotz@amiga.com on 21-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (South Side):
Not sure what you really mean by "emulating" PC whatever registers.
All modern systems (PCI/AGP, USB, Firewire, even Plug&Play ISA if
you don't run it on Windoze) support more or less the same AutoConfig
that the Classic Amiga has for ZorroX. You pop in the card or connector,
the resource control part of the OS reads out the new device's ID numbers,
picks the proper driver for these (from disk or the web, whatever), and
there you go.
For graphics, there's one lowest common denominator mode that every
card supports in case you have no better driver installed, 640*something,
so you do at least have screen display and can see what happens when you
try to install and configure a better driver in place. This mode gives you
a similar trusty fallback as the common across all models OCS modes on the
Classic Amiga chipset.
What concerns higher spec functionality, this will not be accessed in
the Amiga DE by hitting any registers. You will politely hand over your
settings to the correct function in a proper driver, and only that one
is then allowed to hit the registers. This makes sure that changing a
cards won't result in the "tied to stuff no longer made on earth"
desaster that hit the Classics.
Ok, from there on, of course each card or other peripheral will need a
driver, and someone has to write them. Thanks to our sleek trick of
being able to run hosted on other OSs, this will not be anywhere near
as threatening an issue as it is to Be or any other OS dealer apart
from the evil one, though in the longer run we will probably build our
own collection of such drivers for a variety of stuff.
Uhm, ok .. hope I didn't cause more confusion than I planned to clear up. ;) |
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