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Golara
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Black background when sideborder open
I've got this effect where I open almost the whole sideborder to show a "raster bar" go by the screen. Everything was working like normal until I replaced my macro loops with proper code generators. The effect is still working, but I've got a black background.
When you look at the normal view it looks like the sideborder is still closed but there's a sprite on top of it.
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Golara
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All cool tricks posted here which I didn't think of. Another misconception that I had was that the 3fff byte was an index to the current charset, not just a representation of one line of graphics (is it ? I think it is...). Thinking back to the OFFENCE part from their x2010 demo where they seem to have a 3fff scroller and logo (big letters but inside is filled with small characters saying OFFENCE scrolling up and to the side)... I thought they are just ROLing that one char in the charset... so much cooler :D
Or maybe it's just sprites ? I thought it's a sprite mask covering up the 3fff. |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 680 |
Judging from the screenshot, that just looks like they're changing $3fff on each rasterline. The value will repeat across the line and then be read again at HSYNC for the next line. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
krill, cool workaround didnt think of that so far :D what I did sometimes is simply change ffff back and forth sometimes you can have that irq outside the display area. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
Quoting CompyxI always thought that was $F9FF ?
It is. EBCM zeros the address lines that would ordinarily select which quarter of a charset VIC is accessing, so in this instance it just shifts the ghost byte down from the end of the bank by 1536 bytes (3/4 of the 2k a charset occupies). |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Yes, $F9FF. Sorry, brainfart. :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Quoting RaistlinJudging from the screenshot, that just looks like they're changing $3fff on each rasterline. The value will repeat across the line and then be read again at HSYNC for the next line. It's read continually, actually. Changing the visible pattern mid-line is possible, so you can have $3FFF-splits. :) |
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oziphantom
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 490 |
with an REU you can change it per char to make a "picture" |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Quoting KrillYes, $F9FF. Sorry, brainfart. :)
A shame it's not $FAFF, that would be the perfect address for the idle byte. |
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Golara
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Quote: Quoting KrillYes, $F9FF. Sorry, brainfart. :)
A shame it's not $FAFF, that would be the perfect address for the idle byte.
why ? |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary are your friends. :) |
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