Re: DMA successes with Verilog

From: Nejat Dilek <imruon_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 01:27:08 +0300
Message-ID: <CAP5r8NSocc1VWBYYEHwS=kptLTNQu+mvxVywvAGFXw17oazWUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:05 AM,  <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl> wrote:
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>> On 2018-06-14, at 23:38, Nejat Dilek <imruon@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Do CIA chips really keep the NMI low if they don't get an ACK? I don't
>> think so.
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> This is a known (Marko did it first?) software technique for preventing NMIs coming e. g. off the RESTORE key on a 64 and spoiling the precise raster synchronisation.
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I already know it but I'm not talking about software. I'm talking
about hardware and my comments were to the statement "which would hold
the NMI line down, preventing NMI from working". I shared my doubt as
to the "line being held low" or "hardware generating nmi just waiting
for an ACK and not generating any more nmi interrupts.". I think the
latter is correct.

Since NMI to be generated by this special hardware, running software
on the c64 can't prevent it happening. Marko Makela's finding is only
relevant for the stock hardware.

Regards,

Nejat
Received on 2018-06-15 01:00:58

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