
The ROM IMAGE in the above table refers to the character generator
ROM. It appears in place of RAM at the above locations in bank O. It
also appears in the corresponding RAM at locations 36864-40959
($9000-$9FFF) in bank 2. Since the VIC-II chip can only access 16K of
memory at a time, the ROM character patterns appear in the 16K block
of memory the VIC-II chip looks at. Therefore, the system was designed
to make the VIC-II chip think that the ROM characters are at 4096-8191
($1000-$1 FFF) when your data is in bank 0, and 36864-40959
($9000-$9FFF) when your data is in bank 2, even though the character
ROM is actually at location 53248-57343 ($DOOO-$DFFF). This imaging
only applies to character data as seen by the VIC-II chip. It can be used
for programs, other data, etc., just like any other RAM memory.
NOTE:
If these ROM images get in the way of your own graphics, then set the BANK
SELECT BITS to one of the BANKS without the images (BANKS 1 or 3). The ROM
patterns won't be there.
The location and contents of the character set in ROM are as follows:
Sharp-eyed readers will have just noticed something. The locations
occupied by the character ROM are the same as the ones occupied by
the VIC-II chip control registers. This is possible because they don't oc-
cupy the same locations at the same time. When the VIC-II chip needs to
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ADDRESS VIC-II
CONTENTS
BLOCK
DECIMAL HEX
IMAGE
0 53248 DOOO- D1FF
1000- 11FF
Upper case characters
53760 D200- D3FF
1200-13FF
Graphics characters
54272 D400- D5FF
1400-15FF
Reversed
upper case
characters
54784
D600- D7FF 1600- 17FF
Reversed
graphics
characters
1 55296
D800- D9FF 1800- 19FF Lower case characters
55808
DAOO- DBFF 1AOO- 1BFF
Upper case & graphics
characters
56320
DCOO- DDFF 1COO- 1DFF
Reversed lower
case
characters
56832
DEOO-DFFF 1EOO- 1FFF
Reversed upper case &
graphics characters
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