Re: Innovative Amiga genlocking

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 16:17:05 +0100
Message-ID: <3e59e619-6aae-1f49-f2bd-0925f5cb5d70@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 11/07/2017 04:02 PM, smf wrote:
> On 06/11/2017 18:23, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>>
>> Why not? I'm looking a the schematics for the A500+. There the Circuit 
>> to switch between the internal crystal and external clock is a 74F258. 
>> That means that the 8375 AGNUS doesn't know what clock it's running on 
>> and should happily produce sync even with external clock. Same for the 
>> A1000.
>>
> Looking back at some notes the hsync/vsync pins are unbuffered and you 
> can override them by dragging them high/low. It looks like ERSY bit in 
> BPLCON0 turns off the internal generation, going by the write up of how 
> kickstart detects a genlock http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80192

AGNUS is a HMOS-II chip, so you can pull the sync signals low without 
problems. But you must never pull them high with any kind of power 
enough to override the signal since that might overload the output 
driver in AGNUS.

  Gerrit


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