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2002-04-09 08:28
Dwangi

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 130
$e544 ?

Hope this is the right forum to put a question..

I have heard so much comments of what is right and wrong when setting up a multicolor screen (so it also work on old c64:s´)

lda color
sta $0286
jsr $e544

thats fuck up on an old c64 ???
2002-04-09 11:13
Stryyker

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 469
Just use a simple copy loop. Early ROMS used the background colour or something, well didn't always set the colour RAM to expected colour :)
2002-04-09 11:29
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1684
How many people actually uses the ROM in demos?

I never did. All my code starts with:
sei
lda #$35
sta $01

but i've seen a lot of demos and stuff with the rom switched on. Why is that? Then you have less memory. :)
2002-04-09 12:28
anonym

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 276
I normally only turn the ROM off if I need to... However in Trackmos it's something different... It certainly gets difficult when integrating what different coders have created ;-)

/Frank
2002-04-09 13:14
QuasaR
Account closed

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145
The old $e544 doesn't take the colour from $0286 but it take the background-colour. Some demos doesn't work because of this bug and even decruncher seems to fuck up... Try RED STORM on an old C64...
2002-04-09 19:14
Rough
Account closed

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829
Is there an image of that old ROM available somewhere on the net to use in emulators?

I'd also like to have Swedish (different charset) etc. ROMs.

2002-04-09 22:28
WVL

Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 924
do this :

lda #charcolor
sta $0286
sta $d021
jsr $e544
lda #bgcolor
sta $d021

always works, but has this annoying background flash..
use

lda #147
jsr chrout

otherwise.. same as shift-home, but slow

or make a simple loop routine..

WVL
2015-02-03 20:06
Zyron

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381
lda #col
sta $d021
jsr $e536

works on both old & new c64s. ;)
2015-02-03 20:35
lft

Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 369
This behaviour is actually explained in Bagnall's On The Edge. Early revisions of the VIC had a problem where small dots of the foreground colour would flicker randomly all over the screen. Obviously, this would have given potential customers a really bad first impression of the C64. There was no time to fix the hardware, so they added a workaround to the kernal ROM, where the current background colour would be stored into all colour RAM locations corresponding to blank characters on the screen.
2015-02-03 20:47
tlr

Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1807
Quote: lda #col
sta $d021
jsr $e536

works on both old & new c64s. ;)


$e544 sets color mem to white in kernal rev1...
2015-02-04 07:14
JackAsser

Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2038
THIRTEEN YEARS BETWEEN TWO POSTS!!!! :D Horray for Zyron - The thread awakener! ***Svindlande***
 
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