Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
mirrorbird
(00:00:37)
like mosquitoes over the lake. scots and finns will know.
mirrorbird
(00:00:14)
interesting, that snow effect, it only happens around 'set' bits in the bitmap, so it's like tiny flies hovering around the actual pixels on the screen. empty parts are clear.
Agemixer
(23:59:25)
c64 6510 (6502) does 6 cycles on JSR (jump subroutine) and 6cy on RTS (Return from subr.)
mirrorbird
(23:58:48)
knowing Uncle Sir Clive Sinclair -- probably done to cut the price to consumers 
mirrorbird
(23:58:25)
dynamic RAM refresh interferes with the address bus (for some addresses)
Agemixer
(23:57:15)
or why it makes snow? i don't get it...
Agemixer
(23:56:07)
huh! 
that's a big caveat so that's why such workarounds are needed... not very good graphic chips design?
mirrorbird
(23:54:42)
ULA contation
mirrorbird
(23:54:36)
ah yes. the spectrum also has the happy joy of 'contended memory' which will make Christmas snow on the screen 
mirrorbird
(23:54:01)
he has writ: "CALL is 17T. RET is 10T." (T-states) "so 27T for call/ret combo. I can't CALL or RET since the stack pointer is pointing at the screen, which would introduce graphics fuckups"
