Re: GO64 tech stuff?

From: Richard Atkinson (Richard.Atkinson_at_cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 2000-08-28 17:40:42

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Richard Atkinson wrote:

> After that, video and processor accesses continue as normal. Thus, to
> remove one character line from the display there must be 7 cycles between
> TEST being set and TEST being reset, not 8. It also seems to be possible
> to initiate a badline using TEST (presumably due to the incremented
> vertical line counter), though only during the first (halted) cycle after
> TEST was set. During the period where TEST is high and the processor is
> running, no badline DMA transfers are initiated even though the lowest 3
> bits of RASTER can equal YSCROLL in this time.

Should clarify: what I meant was the screen shows three idle accesses
characteristic of a forced badline, but it doesn't seem to have all the
characteristics of a badline; certainly the 1 line video matrix and colour
nybble buffer pointer is not incremented and the buffer filled with new
data.


Richard

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Richard Atkinson
Software Engineer
Tenison Technology EDA Ltd
http://www.tenisontech.com/

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