
SCROLLING
Moving a playfield smoothly in a vertical or horizontal direction.
SERIAL PORT
A connector on the back of the Amiga used to attach modems and other serial add-ons.
SET
Giving a bit the value of 1.
SHARED MEMORY
The RAM used in the Amiga for both display memory and executing programs.
SPRITE
Easily movable graphics object that is produced by one of the eight sprite DMA channels
and is independent of the playfield display.
STROBE ADDRESS
An address you put out to the bus in order to cause some other action to take place; the
actual data written or read is ignored.
TASK
Operating system module or application program. Each task appears to have full control
over its own virtual 68000 machine.
TIMBRE
Tone quality of a sound.
TRACKBALL
A controller device that you spin with your hand to move something on the screen; may
have buttons for other forms of input.
TRANSPARENT
A special color register definition that allows a background color to show through. Used in
dual-playfield mode.
UART
The circuit that controls the serial link to peripheral devices, short for Universal
Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.
VIDEO PRIORITY
Defines which objects (playfields and sprites) are shown in the foreground and which
objects are shown in the background. Higher-priority objects appear in front of lower-
priority objects.
VIDEO DISPLAY
Everything that appears on the screen of a video monitor or television.
WRITE-ONLY
Describes a register that can be written to but cannot be read.
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Содержание Amiga A1000
Страница 1: ...AMIGA HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL 1992 Commodore Business Machines Amiga 1200 PAL...
Страница 20: ...Figure 1 1 Block Diagram for the Amiga Computer Family Introduction 11...
Страница 21: ...12 Introduction...
Страница 72: ...Figure 3 12 A dual Playfield display Playfield Hardware 63...
Страница 87: ...Figure 3 24 Horizontal Scrolling 78 playfield hardware...
Страница 101: ...92 Playfield Hardware...
Страница 199: ...Figure 6 9 DMA time slot allocation 190 Blitter hardware...
Страница 203: ...Figure 6 13 Blitter Block Diagram 194 Blitter Hardware...
Страница 229: ...220 System Control Hardware...
Страница 246: ...Figure 8 8 Chinon Timing diagram cont Interface Hardware 237...
Страница 265: ...256 Interface Hardware...
Страница 289: ...280 Appendix A...
Страница 297: ...288 Appendix B...
Страница 298: ...APPENDIX C CUSTOM CHIP PIN ALLOCATION LIST NOTE Means an active low signal Appendix C 289...
Страница 302: ...APPENDIX D SYSTEM MEMORY MAP Appendix D 293...
Страница 343: ...334 Appendix F...
Страница 351: ...342 Appendix G...
Страница 361: ...352 Appendix H...
Страница 367: ...358 Appendix I...