Date : Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:02:28 +0000
From : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: ?Shadow RAM point
On 3 Dec 2005, at 04:45, Peter Craven wrote:
> If have Shadow RAM on BBC/ Master as being displayed, what happens
> if you are entering a BASIC program that goes over &3000, as the
> computer would have to swap the 'Non-Shadow' User memory back in to
> store the program?????
It works the other way - it only pages in the shadow ram to write to
the screen - 'normally' memory is usually mapped all the way up to
&8000. The display hardware access the shadow memory independently of
the CPU.
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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net