Re: Timer interrupt frequency (50Hz vs 60 Hz)
RETRO Innovations via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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On 3/20/2025 7:51 PM, Alex Evans via Coco wrote: > The trouble I see is that both hsync and hsync are IRQ though you can check > the pia to see which one fired. Apologies, I thought one was IRQ and the other FIRQ. But yes, you could check PIA. > There is also the issue that servicing an > IRQ is not really fast because all of the registers are preserved. Well, my thought is that this code would only run once for at most 1/25 of a second (worst case situation is that fsync irq is enabled immediately following an FSYNC IRQ, so it would run one frame without counting, and then the next it would count. But, the below code can be optimized if needed. My main is whether it would give different values on NTSC versus PAL. I assume so, since there would be 262 or 263 hsyncs in NTSC, but 312/313 in PAL. > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 20:33 RETRO Innovations via Coco <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 3/20/2025 7:07 PM, Alex Evans via Coco wrote: >>> Yes, you can interrupt (IRQ) on hsync on any coco. >> So if you write: >> >> prep: >> >> //put 0 in NUM >> >> // put 0 in START >> >> //enable fsync >> >> // wait for START to equal 2 >> >> // use NUM value to calc PAL or NTSC >> >> >> fsync_IRQ >> >> // increment START >> >> // if START = 1 >> >> // zero out NUM, enable hsync, and return >> >> // else disable fsync and hsync and return >> >> hsync_IRQ: >> >> // increment NUM >> >> // return >> >> Would the above give you different numbers in NUM you could use to >> determine PAL/NTSC? >> >> Jim >> >> -- >> RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems >> www.go4retro.com >> store.go4retro.com >> >> >> -- >> Coco mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco >> -- RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems www.go4retro.com store.go4retro.com -- Coco mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco