[Coco] auto-starting game paks

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Tue Jan 20 17:32:26 EST 2009


At 04:16 PM 1/20/2009, you wrote:
>BASIC does it.  The vector the CPU gets is to the hook in low RAM.
>But it wouldn't cycle continually anyway, as when the CPU gets an FIRQ,
>it masks further interrupts in CC itself.


Continuously, meaning the second the FIRQ service code is through, it 
gets called again because the interrupt signal is still active, 
pending, not clear <-- intentionally overworded for obvious reasons :)


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