[Coco] Coco compatible monitors...

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Wed Jul 6 11:10:08 EDT 2011


On 7/07/2011 12:28 AM, John Kent wrote:

> I'm not sure I follow. You capture the GIME video memory accesses into a
> frame store, then spit them out at the LCD monitor rate? Does it matter if
> the interrupts aren't synchronous with the video output ? they'd be
> synchronous with the GIME chip. That would be all that matters wouldn't it ?

The HSYNC interrupt, for example, generated in the GIME wouldn't be 
synchronous to the HYSNC in the generated video. So if you're doing tricky 
things like playing with the palette, or scroll registers, in the interrupt, 
it wouldn't quite work.

Regards,

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