Re: Commodore joystick ports

From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2004-11-03 15:34:17

Marko Mäkelä wrote:

>You didn't mention one trick that Andreas Boose once told me: the double
>interrupt trick.  Set up two interrupts.  The first one would be served with
>some jitter, and the second one would be triggered while the first one is
>executing NOP instructions.  On the 6502, you'd have to get rid of the 0..1
>cycle jitter in the second interrupt because the shortest instructions take
>2 cycles, but on the AVR the first interrupt can be executing 1-cycle
>instructions, and the second interrupt will be cycle-exact.
>  
>
This is a neat idea (I'll stuff it in my bag of tricks), but I'm not 
sure how to discern the 3 cycle jitter, as my first IRQ is the detection 
of the falling edge of the POT line.

Jim

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