Commander X16

On the C64 you could connect timer A to timer B in the CIA chip. The 6522 VIA has 2 timers as well doesn't it? Can't they be connected in a similar fashion to get a single 32 bit timer?

Thank you for the story and welcome

You wrote you picked up an Otter kit from Ebay, have you put it together ?

Ahoy, welcome! It's nice to see some new people. Have a look around through the forum to see what spikes your interest!

:!: Prog8 Version 10.5.1 has been released https://github.com/irmen/prog8/releases/tag/v10.5.1 documentation is here https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Changes: gfx_hires4 module is now named gfx_hires to be consistent with the gfx_lores module added sprites.reset() routine to remove sprites fr...

Yeah it makes use of a 40x25 visible 8x8 tiles matrix. Which makes it 1000 tiles which is just below the 1024 tile limit, so every tile in the matrix can have its own distinct image so we effectively have a 320x200 "bitmap" image. The scrolling uses the automatic scroll wrap-around. It dra...

Added the source code.

Something big that scrolls. Several images are included in this demonstration.

Is it breaking the limits of the Vera chip? Who knows

Try It Now!

Here is the source code

:!: Prog8 version 10.5 has been released: https://github.com/irmen/prog8/releases/tag/v10.5 Documentation at https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This is a substantial release with many new things and various things that are not backwards compatible, so please read the release notes carefully: Br...

If you use the alternate emulator Box16, you actually can inspect VERA ram and then some. It provides a plethora of different monitoring and debugging windows

woah, is that gif from running on the x16? This has come a long way already! Amazing job