Re: [hatari-devel] It seems I encounter a bug into hatari

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:15:16 +0100
Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While testing racer on my real hardware, I encounter something that 
> works under hatari but not under the falcon (with both old and new cpu)
> 
> The piece of code given above displays the sky (one color per line).
> 
> Under hatari, the sky displays correctly, but under the Falcon, it seems 
> the color palette pointer is wrong and the sky is displayed with bad colors.
> 
> Is it related to the fact I use the ffff8040 + memory address in long mode ?
> 
> At least, Hatari and the real hardware differs here.

I don't think that you can abuse the color registers for storing
arbitrary data since there are likely some bits in the register that
are not implemented in hardware (either tied to zero or random when you
read them back). We likely just lack the masking of the color registers
in Falcon mode in Hatari, that's why it's working by accident there.

 Thomas