RE: Building my monster C64 accelerator

From: MagerValp (MagerValp_at_cling.gu.se)
Date: 2003-08-19 15:49:02

>>>>> "OA" == Oliver Achten <achten@gmx.de> writes:

NC> Of course, a simple design would assume all writes slowed to 1MHz
NC> hardware. With some complexity it could be mapped as to which
NC> writes to do what.

OA> No need to do that. With the fast SRAM replacing the old DRAMs,
OA> everything (except register writes) can run at full speed.
[...]
OA> Why slow-down writes when the Drams are replaced anyway? Only
OA> access to the colour ram has to be slowed down.

Unless you replace the PLA, the VIC still reads from internal DRAM,
which has to be written at 1 MHz. If you use a fast SRAM the VIC won't
see what's written to the screen.

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