(i) counting frames; (ii) emulators in general

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Harte
Completely unrelated questions, but: (1) if I disable interrupts temporarily so that I can use the stack pointer for pixel plotting, is there any reliable way to spot afterwards if I've missed an end-of-display interrupt? I'm vaguely aware that there's a current scanline hardware counter

Re: (i) counting frames; (ii) emulators in general

2009-10-08 Thread Colin Piggot
Thomas wrote: (1) I'm vaguely aware that there's a current scanline hardware counter somewhere - does that count actual PAL lines or only lines with pixels on them? HPEN port (01f8) will give the current scanline - for scanlines in the display area only (0-191 iirc) And how long does the

Micro Men

2009-10-08 Thread Dicky
Hello all Have you seen that a BBC drama about 80's computing is on tonight? A bit before Sam's time but only just. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 Thanks Dicky

RE: Micro Men

2009-10-08 Thread Stefan Drissen
Excellent, that was most enjoyable - thanks for the heads up! The old days eh... :-) Regards, Stefan From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Dicky Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 19:05 To: