Le 05/07/2020 à 00:05, Troed Sångberg a écrit :
Hi all,
Common lore is that an Atari can display a maximum of 274 lines
fullscreen. However, while that's indeed the number of lines available
from first graphics line (DE active) to start of 50Hz VBLANK, it's
possible to skip the start of VBLANK to gain an additional two lines
of graphics (and 30 odd pixels or so of line 277 until VSYNC kicks in
and forces an end to the graphics).
So, 276.
However, that's _graphics lines_. The top border starts earlier than
the earliest possible graphics line, and in borders you can do raster
effects etc. This is currently not emulated in Hatari, those 9 lines
are not displayed.
So, 285
Today, at Sommarhack, I released a new SYNC screen that starts the top
border even earlier than that, an additional 9 lines earlier. Still
"only" border, so only raster effects possible, but it's still
something supported by the hardware.
So, 294
Of course, seeing all these lines is difficult. My Dell 2001FP can,
but I need to manually modify vpos up and down - cannot see all at the
same time.
The reason this is possible is that the normal top border starts when
50Hz VBLANK ends. As could be expected, there's a 60Hz VBLANK end as
well in GLUE. I simply trigger that one instead.
https://demozoo.org/productions/280184/
regards,
Troed
Hi
thanks for the explanation ; nice trick to switch to 60 Hz to display
color 0 early :)
I will see if I can support this in Hatari soon ; I already started some
changes some times ago to show the 285 colored lines, but didn't have
time to complete yet due to overall lack of time. I hope I can resume
more work on Hatari.