space for registers.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ovale
The original team was wise enough to leave the CLUT at the end of the registers address space. Was ECS that put new registers after the CLUT breaking forward compatibility with bigger CLUT. They should had add a new pin to the RGA bus and respin all the 3 chips.
|
Maybe one of the experts can help me here.
The
Amiga memory map shows a lot of reserved regions, that could have been used for additional chipset registers. What about A80000-BEFFFF?
Ok - the registers would no longer be in one single region, but is that really a problem?