Chris Collins

Tagged “dma”

Exploration ·

How the Amiga drew Boing

A red and white ball bouncing across a purple grid sold a computer. Take it apart with live tools — the copper and the beam, colour cycling, sprites and blitter objects, the cookie-cut blit, the fight for chip RAM, and Paula's boom — and see how a 7 MHz machine made it look effortless.

Amiga

Tool ·

Peripheral protocols, simulated

Compose PS/2 keyboard and mouse traffic, WS2812 pixel data, IR remote codes (NEC, RC5, RC6, Sony), DMX512 packets, MIDI bytes and Centronics printer handshakes, and step through the timing diagram bit by bit — with error injection, decoders for pasted captures and Flipper/IRremote files, VCD export and a hand-off to the logic analyser.

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Tool ·

Amiga DMA slot timing

See who owns every colour clock of an Amiga scanline — refresh, disk, audio, sprites, bitplanes, copper, blitter and the 68000 — and how screen depth, resolution, overscan and blitter-nasty steal chip-RAM time, with per-frame and per-second budgets for PAL and NTSC.

Amiga

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Paula audio, MOD tracker and player

Compose ProTracker MOD music in the browser — pattern editor with the ProTracker keyboard, on-screen piano and MIDI, sample editor with WAV/8SVX import, recording and chip waveforms — plus Paula period/note/rate conversion, Paula periods and sample rates on PAL or NTSC, see the complete ProTracker period table with finetunes and DMA timing, and inspect and play MOD files.

Amiga

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Retro raster timing

PAL and NTSC raster maths for the Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, and C64 — cycles per line and frame, frame rates, µs per scanline, unit conversions, a per-frame cycle budget, and the cycles DMA steals.

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