Re: incorporating a pause button option,

From: Andy Welburn <warlords_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 19:09:12 EDT

you say this tho...

i managed to get a battlezone board to 'hang' with a static screen... god
knows how, i was just poking it and shit to find another fault..

also a friends machine will 'hang' of its own accord once it warms up..
stationary picture....

it must be possible..

maybe i should take the screwdriver to the BZ and see if i can get it to do
it again..

Andy

> If you want to do a halt on vector games, the foreground code will still
> need to be telling the vector generator to go draw the contents of the
> vector RAM at a regular rate, otherwise the display will go blank. Don't
> expect stopping the processor to result in a steady picture. It won't
> happen.
>
> -->Neil

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