Correct operation of screens 1 and 2 on Scorpio
ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»
From Kirill Frolov → To All 6 September 2000
01 Sep 00 10:14, Andrey Eismont wrote to Kirill Frolov:
KF>>>> Nothing was fixed there. The port state seems to have been set to AY,
KF>>>> but the shadow service does not use this.
AE>>> Why then did they write that it was eliminated?
KF>> It was eliminated in the hardware, but was not supported by software.
AE> So, how can this be eliminated in the hardware?
Enter the screen number on some port, so that
the processor can read it from there.
AE> This is the question that interests me.
AE> And what does software support have to do with it?
And the shadow service determines the screen number
purely programmatically and this bit does not read from the port.
KF>> I did this already 2 years ago and have not regretted it yet!
AE> And with how to use a broom?
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I don’t have any brooms on my computer.