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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIGS
- #40: VBL Signal
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- Revised by: Dave Lyons July 1989
- Written by: Rob Moore & Rilla Reynolds May 1988
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- This Technical Note discusses reading the VBL signal to accomplish smooth
- animation.
- Changes since November 1988: Noted that vertical blanking does not begin
- when you might expect on the Apple IIGS and removed references to the Apple
- IIc.
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- Applications can accomplish smooth animation on the Apple IIGS and Apple IIe
- by changing the data on the screen during the time the system is tracing the
- unusable area of the display. This time is called "vertical blanking" or
- "VBL" in this Note. You can determine the state of the VBL signal by reading
- location $C019.
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- On the Apple IIGS, the $C019 sense of the VBL signal differs from the IIe. On
- the IIGS, the screen is blanked when the most significant bit of $C019 is
- high (greater than 127 or $7F), while on the IIe, the screen is blanked when
- the bit is low (less than 128 or $80).
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- A VBL interrupt also is available on Apple II systems via the Apple IIGS
- Miscellaneous Tool Set or mouse firmware, the Apple IIe mouse card, and the
- Apple IIc mouse firmware.
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- On the Apple IIGS, vertical blanking begins at scan line 192 regardless of the
- display mode. When the Super Hi-Res display is visible, vertical blanking
- begins eight scan lines before the bottom of the display area. If the VBL
- interrupt is enabled, it triggers at scan line 192.
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIGS Technical Note #39, Mega II Video Counters