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immibislast Thursday at 7:43 PM1 replyview on HN

And discovered you could disable cache writeback to have a region of fast RAM without bus contention, and ways to use the hidden 9th bit in each byte which is only usd by certain graphics framebuffer operations.

I don't think he uses either one in serious code, but if he did, good luck emulating it.


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dmonitorlast Thursday at 7:49 PM

He demos his code on both console and emulator, so there shouldn't be an issue in that regard.