RE: [stella] 6502 question (was INV+ ... )

Subject: RE: [stella] 6502 question (was INV+ ... )
From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 02:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
Lee (and anyone else who's new since the last time I posted this),

I have complete memory maps for the VCS at
http://web.mit.edu/ecwilkso/www/VCS_hardware

-Chris

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Erik Mooney wrote:

> "Lee Fastenau" <stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Why would the RTS read from the collision registers after a JSR that writes
> > to RESPx?  The Reset registers don't share memory locations with any other
> > registers... at least not as far as vcs.h is concerned, so reading from them
> > would yield totally unexpected results.  Or so I would think.
> >
> > Is this another undocumented feature (of thousands) of TIA?
>
> It's documented, just not in vcs.h.  The collision (and other
> read registers like INPT4) range from $00 to $0E, but are also
> mirrored at $10 through $1E and so on up to $70 through $7E.
> All the TIA graphics registers (any address between $00 and $7F)
> are write-only; any read access to that area reads from a
> collision register instead.
>
> That all happens because to save on silicon gates, the TIA
> doesn't do full address analysis for read requests.  Because
> the graphics registers are write-only, there's no need for it
> to distinguish between a read from $00 and $10, so it doesn't.
> So if you try to read (any type of read, whether it's LDA or
> RTS) from RESP1, which is at address $11, that's the same thing
> as reading from $01, which is CXM1P.
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