Re: commodore 8032 vga / ports to monitor

From: didier derny <didier_at_aida.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:30:09 +0100
Message-ID: <8432ecee-45ef-2550-615e-aa0b75856e67@aida.org>
thanks for the informations


I think I found a way to support from the original pet 2001 to the 8296

I'll configure initially for 40 columns (pet 2001)  mode   (color of the 
screen / level with trim on the board)

then when I receive the crtc configuration I'll switch to the correct mode


Le 25/02/2018 à 00:28, Mia Magnusson a écrit :
> Den Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:49:37 +0100 skrev didier derny
> <didier@aida.org>:
>> I guess that for my vga board, all I need to monitor
>>
>> is the write in CRTC  (to reconfigure the screen emulated in the
>> propeller)
>>
>> and the write in $FFF0 to detect when the screen or I/O area are
>> shadowed by the 64k extension ?
>>
>>
>> I've not seen anything else in PIA/VIA but I may have missed something
>>
>> for me the 8032 it's quite old...
> There is the "killer poke" that turns the VSYNC detect input to an
> output. On the oldest PETs the hardware did drive hard enough that this
> didn't matter but it disabled the timing logic halting the cpu when
> accessing video ram while video were displayed. On newer machines it
> messes up VSYNC output.
>
> Don't know if there is any use emulating that behavior.
>
> P.S. if you want some ideas for feature creep you might want to have a
> look at the various hires addons for PETs :)
>


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