if false, the emulator is free to gain whatever speedup it can by not doing audio processing (shouldn't change anything sync related, though)
the core should still always call SoundProvider.GetSamples() after each FrameAdvance(), else DRAGONS
at the moment, only test-implemented in gambattehawk
i don't like doing this, but there were already two emus with special bandaid logic in MainForm.cs
i hope this doesn't break something, but if it does i'll fix it
--Did the same for the PSG because why not.
-Discovered that the Commando HLT happens after the CPU goes idle, so there's no point in further investigating the issue until I emulate that.
-Parsed the BACKTAB cards for the STIC's Draw().
-Attempted to draw the screen using the aforementioned cards.
--I'm only trying to apply color to the foreground.
---Instead of converting the FG color to RGBA, I'm making it all white for now.
--There's clearly some sanity to what's being drawn, so I think each 8x8 card is being drawn in the right place.
--I think the next step is trying to make each individual card draw properly.
--I believe the algorithm for populating the FrameBuffer is VERY inefficient in the way it accesses memory. Will need some suggestions as to how I can rewrite this.
--VirtualHeight / Width will be useful due to how the scanlines are doubled on TVs, but for now, I will just be drawing to scale.
-Enabled XOR@, SAR, and COMR. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons provided more test cases.
-Noticed that Commando, as well as some other games, triggers a HLT. This should be looked into later.
-Added and Interrupted flag to make it so that interrupts only trigger once per falling edge.
-For now, interrupts take 28 cycles.
-Made it so that the STIC tracks Pending / Total Executed Cycles just like the CPU.
-Forwarded the cycles executed in the CPU to the STIC's Execute.
-SR1 is now inverted when there are no pending cycles.
--If SR1 is high, 14394 cycles are added to the pending cycles.
--If SR1 is low, 3791 cycles are added to the pending cycles.
--Not sure why the STIC has any connection to the SST, but the docs on the SST are virtually non-existent from what I could find.
--I took advantage of Func and Action instead of passing bool references to both devices. I think this makes sense.
-Added reset functions for both devices.
My comparison log for INTRM is still weird because it says it is true initially (Expected) and remains as such after the first instruction (A bit odd). I think this happens because the STIC is supposed to "tick" and shift SR1 to false immediately, but the STIC tick happens after the CPU tick, and the CPU tick is where the logging happens. I need to find a better place to put this logging, and I need to implement the STIC ticking for IntelliHawk. I'm not positive how to approach the latter issue as I assume a tick means one instruction execution, and my executions happen in a loop on the CPU, which has no reference to the STIC, so I'm not sure where this fits into the equation.
-Foreground / Background | Color Stack Mode
--Actually made a boolean for it (FGBG).
--Reading from a write-only STIC alias of $21 does change the STIC into Color Stack mode, but it doesn't actually read.
--Color stack mode is enabled when $21 or its alias is read and it is disabled (FGBG) when written its written, both having to occur during VBlank Period 1.
---This is what I gathered from the wiki, but I'm confused as to why it says that "The STIC stays in this mode until the program accesses location $21 again." I'm assuming this doesn't mean the mode changes on every access because then I don't understand why a read would change to a different mode than a write.
--FGBG is disabled by default. I don't think it matters.
-I will now assume that 0x7000 is not mapped for the sake of continuing on. I will need to implement a mapper system shortly though.
--Did the same thing for 0x4800.
-AND@, MOVR, CMP enabled.
-Made the logging separator generate before an instruction instead of after the register states. This is quite petty, but I don't like the separator at the end of the file.
I hit an infinite loop, and I'm very very certain it's happening because I don't have an interrupt system yet. Time to stop avoiding that!
-Separated cartridge logic into a separate ICart named Cartridge.cs.
-Made WriteMemory return a bool to match ICart.Write. It currently returns true if either the cart or the core responded.
TODO: Parse the vanilla Intellivision ROM, which will hopefully include the read / writability of the data segments. adelikat seems to think that I just need to send the bytes to $5000, but I'm not convinced.
--It now just builds a strings and writes on finalization.
-Fixed up format strings.
-As RegisterPC already increments upon reading the third decle, I now just store PC as the return address for jumping instead of PC + 1.
-Fixed disassembly for JMP:
--Now it uses the parameter pc, not RegisterPC.
--I was loading both the second and third value from the second's address.
--Casting the calculated addresses to bytes when addresses are 16-bit was a bad idea.
--Removed a closing parenthesis I accidentally stuck in the formatting.
It seems that I've gotten far enough to use the Executive ROM as a test case! Now to go instruction by instruction and see if they work as planned and hope this will all eventually make something.
-Initialized the memory devices with a tentative size that ignores the unofficial ranges.
-Masked addresses to match those sizes (That's my understanding of what the memory map needs to do based on other examples).
-Added the ICart interface.
-Started the Intellicart parser; got far enough to know that the files I'm working with are not Intellicarts. ^_^
-Set up the "official" memory map - see http://wiki.intellivision.us/index.php?title=Memory_Map
--Things I didn't do:
---Accessibility.
---Additional Occupied Memory Ranges.
---Addresses Available to Cartridges
---Initialize any of the byte arrays.
--Not sure which of these I need to do, but clearly the byte arrays have to be initialized somewhere to something and there's a lot of gaps in this memory map.
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