Re: [Emutos-devel] _SND, _VDO cookies and our XBIOS

[Petr S. <pst...@so...>]

Laurent Vogel p=ED=B9e v Po 29. 11. 2004 v 22:11 +0100:
> - immediately: do not set the '_SND' and '_VDO' cookies to anything=20
>   other than PSG sound and STe shifter, but keep the values of=20
>   the _MCH cookie.
> - in the near future, implement the VIDEL XBIOS routines, and then allo=
w=20
>   setting '_VDO' to 0x00030000.

I agree 100%.

> One could argue whether it is worse to have e.g. _MCH and _SND in
> conflict, or to report advanced _SND features without the corresponding=
=20
> XBIOS functions. I believe it is worse to lie about the XBIOS functions.

Definitely. For example, current FreeMiNT kernel sort of fails on ARAnyM
+EmuTOS because it tries to call a Falcon XBIOS function (because of the
_VDO value) but the function is not available (IIRC).

Petr