Re: [hatari-devel] Fastload from GEMDOS drive emulation

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Am Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:18:23 +0200
schrieb Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 10/06/2019 at 08:59, Christian Zietz wrote:
> > When you load and relocate a program yourself, like Hatari has to do
> > for GEMDOS emulation, it's up to you (=Hatari) to clear the
> > memory.  
> 
> And for best compatibility, Hatari should clear the memory
> *slowly* :-) Ideally, using the emulated CPU to clear the whole block.

The memory clearing is done by the cartridge code, i.e. via the
emulated CPU. You should now see a significant speed difference here,
too, when you clear the FASTLOAD bit and have a lot of free memory.

 Thomas



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