Author: The Paranoid (spock.Chemie.Uni-Mainz.DE)
Date: 10-01-2002 10:36
Well, Blitter and CPU can't work simultaneously but have to share the bus.
Each processor gets 64 clockcycles, then the bus is given to the other component.
In hog-mode, the CPU cannot access the bus until the Blitter is done. Since the 68000 in the STE lacks all kind of caches and does not have any FastRAM, this means that the CPU is totally idle during this time.
Hog-mode is only suitable if you know the exact timing schedule of your routines and will usually lead to massive incompatibilities with MegaSTE, tuned STE or Falcon computers that have other timings.
The Paranoid
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