RE: Sam CPU timing quick quezzie

2001-08-17 Thread Howard Price
At 22:26 14/08/01, Si Owen wrote: You'll certainly see the extra delays when writing to ports 248 and above, or when the ASIC is drawing the main screen area. I'm confident that the current SimCoupé is already accurate enough for you to be able to develop your Mode 4 IM2 routines on it and have

RE: Sam CPU timing quick quezzie

2001-08-17 Thread Simon Owen
Howard Price wrote: Thanks for this info. Surprisingly, I'm still using my *real SAM* to program on right now My real one is fairly inconvenient to use - I need access to the main TV, and I have to put it back in it's box so my wife doesn't complain about it being untidy! :-D I

RE: Sam CPU timing quick quezzie

2001-08-15 Thread Simon Owen
Howard Price wrote: Do you know how many T-states you get a frame, then? There are always 384 t-states per line for the 312 screen lines = 119808 t-states. Pref. with memory contention in Mode 4 Just writing a timing program in IM2 Unfortunately it's not that simple to work out! :-/

RE: Sam CPU timing quick quezzie

2001-08-14 Thread Howard Price
At 11:59 10/08/01, you wrote: Real SAM: MODE 1: ROM=5.986, RAM=4.428 MODE 2: ROM=5.988, RAM=4.883 MODE 3 and 4 (video on): ROM=5.988, RAM=4.883 MODE 3 and 4 (video off): ROM=5.988, RAM=5.561 Si Do you know how many T-states you get a