[Coco] CoCoFEST! Challenge: CoCo DMA
James Ross
jrosslist at outlook.com
Sun Mar 8 20:54:26 EDT 2020
James Ross wrote:
>> I was under the impression that from the CoCo’s cartridge slot only the CoCo1/2
>> allow DMA to be performed, not a stock CoCo3?
>>
> RETRO Innovations
> You understand correctly. The CC3 includes a buffer IC between the CPU
> and the data bus. ...
>From what I understand a blitter can be implemented using DMA. So a CoCo1/2 blitter cart might be pretty cool! (offload the sprite and tile drawing to a DMA driven blitter?)
- JR
More information about the Coco
mailing list