Re: What does VIC-II do when switched "off"?

On 07/02/2020 09:14, tokafondo wrote:
> But... what if I turn the VIC-II "off"? What does it do when I want no
> graphics at all? Just refreshing DRAM? does it stop accessing the bus and
> reading all the memory locations it needs or does it just do it every time,
> no matter if it's displaying something?

I assumed that when the screen is blanked then it just accesses $3fff on
it's half of the clocks, apart of course from the dram refresh cycles.