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Yeah, it would steal a lot of DMA time, and would starve a CPU not executing code & accessing data in the Fast RAM. But at least you can display pretty picture
by vardump 6y ago
Yeah, it would steal a lot of DMA time, and would starve a CPU not executing code & accessing data in the Fast RAM.
But at least you can display pretty pictures without HAM fringing. :-)
- pezezin 6y agoFair enough. I'm always amazed at the kind of tricks expert programmers could pull off on those old 2D machines. Have you seen the Sega MegaColor demo? A crazy guy managed to play full color video at 30 fps in the Sega Megadrive. No graphics, no sprites, just change the background color for every pixel through DMA!