Re: NTSC VIC-II timing

On Wednesday 21 June 2017, 16:40:03 silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> According to the famous document by Chris Bauer, there are three timing
> variants of the VIC-II. While PAL is always 63 cycles per  line, with NTSC
> there can be either 64 or 65 cycles per line and I am in fact able to
> reproduce the difference with -model ntsc and -model oldntsc in the current
> VICE.
> 
> The question (before I spend weekend on trial'n error counting cycles and
> possibly reinventing the hammer ;-) is: do we have ane established,
> reliable software method for detecting which NTSC VIC-II is installed in
> the machine? I guess it must have been done multiple times by now and used
> in some NTSC games/demos..

most demos or games probably dont care about detecting the difference - as the 
64 cycle VIC is extremely rare.

however, iirc on codebase there are some detection routines. basically just 
count the cycles for a line (or a frame) using a CIA timer.

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