Re: CIA old/new?

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher_at_kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:57:03 -0600
Message-ID: <20210107235703.GL30983_at_gate.crashing.org>
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 04:40:12PM -0600, Uffe .. Jakobsen wrote:
> Segher Boessenkool wrote
> > My position is it is not a bug at all, it is as designed.  And it
> > wouldn't even be noticed until very many years later :-)
> 
> Well not that many years later...
> 
> I was quite surprised when I at some point in 1988 ran one of my own demos
> on a C64C with HMOS-II VIC-II.
> I my own was a breadbox C64 with NMOS VIC-II and everyone I know had those.
> 
> So the surprise was quite big when I got access to a C64C/HMOS based system
> and saw grey dots every where on my demo.
> Looking at the demo made it quite clear what the problem was...
> Do not change the border or background color while the beam is visible on
> the screen....
> But that is quite difficult to avoid when doing vertical raster splits :-D

Do not change a colour while it is being displayed (in the first pixel
in a block).  It isn't *that* hard to avoid...  Think of it as an extra
twist to the puzzle ;-)


Segher
Received on 2021-01-08 01:00:02

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