Re: Interrupts and loading from disk

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:29:15 +0100
Message-ID: <2248313.SDuOHJmRoK@rakete>
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2019, 18:03:59 CET schrieb Jeff Birt:
> Hi all, I'm working on a C64 project which uses timer B on CIA2 to trigger
> a NMI at a 1kHz rate. I seem to remember that disk access tromps on
> interrupt handling as the C64 bit bangs the serial I/O to the drive. I have
> been searching and have not found a good in depth explanation of how this
> works and what might be done to work around it.
> 
>  Any links/tips appreciated.

without going into details as to why this happens - the solution is to use a 
so called "irq loader". a popular one is this one: https://csdb.dk/release/?
id=169364

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