[Coco] GIME Question

Darren A. darccml at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 10 19:49:18 EDT 2007


I tried many different configurations of FF90 and FFDE/F. It appears that 
the GIME is ALWAYS directing addresses $FFF0 - $FFFF to those same addresses 
in the Internal ROM (never to $BFF0 - $BFFF).

Darren

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>From: Arthur Flexser
>
>Were you in ROM mode when you compared the contents of $BFF0 and $FFF0?
>
>To access ROM mode there, you may need not only to poke $FFDE, but also 
>diddle
>the "constant RAM at $FE00" bit in one of the GIME registers.  (The latter
>requires disabling the IRQ first -- POKE &HFF03,&H34 -- to avoid a crash.)
>
>Art
>
>
>On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Darren A. wrote:
>
> > The SAM in the CoCo 1/2 maps addresses $FFF0 - $FFFF (interrupt/reset
> > vectors) to $BFF0 - $BFFF (End of Color Basic ROM). Does the GIME not 
>mimic
> > this behavior? On a CoCo 3, PEEKing at &HFFF0 returns a different value 
>than
> > a PEEK at &HBFF0.
> >
> >
> > Darren
> >

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