We now switched of the R800 completely in the beginning. Then we chain to the menu where the moonblaster routine is loaded (in Z80 mode). And now our machine still hangs. So there is NO switching from the processor during loading. We switched immediately at the beginning of starting the game...
If I leave the music routine everything runs fine. Isn't there somebody out there who can rewrite this so that it will work correctly? All help is very appreciated!! Kind regards, Raymond "Laurens Holst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04-12-2003 00:14 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: [MSX] switching r800 <-> z80 in TP Laurens Holst wrote: > Well, as was explained before, the MB routines detect the CPU mode at > a certain point, and all the I/O timing after that is based on that > detection. Probably, it detects the CPU mode somewhere in the period > before switching to Z80 (during initialization or loading), so it > detects a R800. If you then switch to Z80, the replayer's timing is > still done for the R800, which means that it puts in very long delay > instructions to slow down the I/O access... Which the Z80 can't > handle. Or uh... maybe not -_-... (just read in Eric's mail that it detects the speed when the music *starts* to play). Anyways it may not hurt to test if it runs ok when the game starts (and stays) in Z80 mode. If it does, the problem probably lays in some routines not liking the switching between different CPU speeds. And the MB routines are a good candidate for that. If it does not, it is not so much a switching as a more general Z80 timing problem. Actually all I can really think of that could give problems of that kind (on a 'low' Turbo Pascal level at least) is the interrupt handler being too slow... Hey, or maybe the game engine uses some R800-only instructions? MULUB, anyone? Oh, wait, it's Turbo Pascal... ~Grauw --- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!! _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
