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:UK => Programming => Topic started by: jltursan on 2014.June.10. 22:43:20

Title: Nick's LPB byte fetching
Post by: jltursan on 2014.June.10. 22:43:20
I'm thinking about the possibilities that LPT & LPB offers and I wonder if while a LPB is being processed, Nick can be fooled to fetch bytes every n RAM addresses. I mean, defining a constant module to add after every fetch operation tu use instead the usual +1.
Looking at the LPB definition, seems that there's no way to accomplish that and the bytes used in the scanline are always stored in a linear fashion in memory.
Title: Re: Nick's LPB byte fetching
Post by: geco on 2014.June.11. 08:48:28
I do not think it is possible, it would be good for emulating C64, and MSX style screens.
Title: Re: Nick's LPB byte fetching
Post by: jltursan on 2014.June.11. 23:05:31
Indeed, in fact I was thinking in machines like the MSX or even the PCW.

Looks like text modes (both hardware & software) have similarities: ASCII map + character definition; but they lack colour and have some other quirks. Oh life!