[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Tick counter



Somebody wrote,
>What happens when the tick counter wraps from $FFFFFFFF to 0?

Lots of people answered,
>Gee...I dunno...it'd take too long to find out.

Not necessarily.  If somebody really wants to find out, why not try simply
manually setting the tick counter to something close to $FFFFFFFF?  If you
set it to $FFFFF000, then it ought to take a little over a minute to wrap.

The location of the tick counter can be found by calling _GetAddr with a
reference number of 5.  On ROM 1, it's at $E1/00DC.

               - Neil Parker
--
Neil Parker                 No cute ASCII art...no cute quote...no cute
nparker@cie.uoregon.edu     disclaimer...no deposit, no return...
parker@corona.uoregon.edu   (This space intentionally left blank:           )