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Interesting! Hmmm, is the bitmap linear by line, or C64 style? Auto increment + C64 style would rock pretty hard. It's still good per line. Both have their
by ddingus 6y ago
Interesting!
Hmmm, is the bitmap linear by line, or C64 style?
Auto increment + C64 style would rock pretty hard. It's still good per line.
Both have their merits.
- thought_alarm 6y agoBitmap mode is made up of 8x8 tiles. The screen is 32x24 tiles, or 256x192 pixels. 2 colors per line per tile. So a single tile can contain up to 16 colors. A single screen is divided into 3 separate tile maps, each 256 bytes long. It also supports 32 spirtes but only 4 sprites per scanline, which is its biggest limitation. The Sega Master System used an upgraded version of the 9918, adding 64 colors, smooth scrolling, and 8 sprites per scanline, all within the same 16 kB of VRAM.
- ddingus 6y agoSo if a person maps them up, one gets basically C64 style display. Yeah, auto-increment can rock! Blasting characters to the memory would be fast, and only require a precise index for the source data. Perfect for the 6502. Other index can be done every so often, depending on what is being drawn.