I didn't mention OAM/sprite DMA.

Dark Fader

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Giovanni Bajo [mailto:bagio@...]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:18 AM
> Aan: gbadev@egroups.com
> Onderwerp: RE: [gbadev] DMA dilemma!
>
>
> >
> > GBC halts when doing General Purpose DMA.
> > And HBlank DMA in h-blanks.
>
> Not really. If you look at a standard DMA routine on GBC, it
> is copied to
> $FF00-$FFFE because that's the only area of RAM still readable (and
> executable) WHILE DMA is in progress. Tipically, there is a
> short loop there
> to allow DMA to complete its execution.
>
> > It's faster than creating a copy loop.
>
> This could be useful on GBC, but I don't think that speed in
> memory xfer is
> a major problem on AGB.
>
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