[Coco] Emulators, FPGA Becker port questions

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 17:42:21 EST 2015


awesom Bill.  Looks like my idea for VSYNC on the Vcc should work.
Now if I can confirm the FPGA coco also does the IRQ/VYNC thing
sanely, then my idea should at least work for HDBDOS.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco
<coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Brett, I'm not sure about the VSYNC, but I do know that in VCC, when overclocked (but throttled), that running Ultimuse3, the MIDI timer stays in time no matter how fast I overclock. Song play the right speed. Ultimuse3 uses the OS9 clock for it's MIDI timing.
> I have another MIDI player (Lyra play) that uses a software timer and it speeds up with the overclocking. It doesn't use the clock but uses "loops" for timing.
> As a note, in OS9, the keyboard input does not speed up with overclocking, but the key repeat and delay does speed up.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 5, 2015 2:27 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Emulators, FPGA Becker port questions
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> I added a timeout to my becker/dw port routines.  I hear some people's
> servers can't respond fast enough to avoid a simple timeout when using
> super-fast 6809 implementations.  Looks like I need an implementation
> independent timer.  I thought of using the VSYNC interrupt to help me.
> Does anyone know if Vcc and/or FPGA speed up the VSYNC as well as the
> regular clock ?  I'm hoping not :)
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