On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:40:33 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote:
>> The nice feature Daniel forgot to tell you is that VDP commands
>> can be executed WHILE you're writing to advram! Think of screen 5. This
>> way you can build your scenary in page 1 using HMMM on blocks present on
>> page 2, while uploading new blocks in page 0 through advram. And, since
>> these new blocks are coming from the normal megaram/mapper ram, it's
>> almost like your VRAM has been expanded to 4Mb. Is this nice or what? :)
>The VDP can do this too!!!
>You can write to the VRAM using port #98 while the VDP is executing a
>copy-command!!!
Well, this is slow and... it's not official, since Yamaha sais that writing
on VDP during commands may result "strange behaviour". (-:
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