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Re: Vertical BLanking (VBL) for Apple II

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David Schmenk wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 January 2015 16:04:20 UTC-8, mmphosis  wrote:
>> http://hoop-la.ca/apple2/2015/vbl/
> 
> This is basically the code the MouseCard uses to initialize the 6522 timer
> for VLB interrupts on an Apple ][ and ][+. Don't try enabling the VLB
> interrupts from code residing in the $2000 to $4000 range, like in a
> ProDOS
> system program. Ask me how I know :-)

High-Resolution Graphics page 1 gets cleared by the mouse firmware so your
program gets nuked. I found this out the hard way when writing the
Multitasking Mouse Draw Demo. Fortunately, I had an inkling of reading about
this side effect long ago, so I pulled out the AppleMouse manual, and sure
enough, there was the warning. This memory clear only happens on the
original II and II Plus

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