*** PCV (PCVIC VIC-20 emulator saved-session files) *** Document revision: 1.1 *** Last updated: March 11, 2004 *** Compiler/Editor: Peter Schepers *** Contributors/sources: unknown This is another snapshot file, generated by the PCVIC VIC-20 emulator, written by BW Van Schooten. This description is based on the version 1.0 of the PCVIC emulator. Bytes: $0000-0015 - PCVIC signature string "PCVIC system snapshot", with a zero terminator 0016-0017 - Version#, minor (0-99)/major (0-255). 0018-0019 - Size of register state block (not including this size value) 001A-XXXX - Register state block, contains system register values and memory expansion settings. XXXX-MMMM - Byte-run compression of VIC memory. This excludes the standard ROM areas $8000-8FFF and $C000-CFFF (END-1)-END - Two-byte checksum of the data from $0016 to the end of the MMMM section. Here is most of the contents of the register state block: Byte: $00-01 - 6502 X register in low byte, high byte set to 0 02-03 - 6502 Y register in low byte, high byte set to 0 04-05 - 6502 SP (stack pointer) in low byte, high byte set to 1 06 - Unused 07 - 6502 auxiliary flags. Bits 2-5 are bits 2-5 of the CPU flag register. All other bits set to 0. 08-09 - Scanline 0-263 - NTSC 0-311 - PAL 0A - VIA1 IFR register 0B - VIA1 IER register 0C - VIA2 IFR register 0D - VIA2 IER register 0E - VIA1 IRB port 0F - VIA1 ORB port 10 - VIA1 IRA port 11 - VIA1 ORA port 12 - VIA2 IRB port 13 - VIA2 ORB port 14 - VIA2 IRA port 15 - VIA2 ORA port 16 - Timer Status. 1=Active, 0=Inactive Bit: 0 - VIA1 Timer 1 1 - VIA1 Timer 2 2 - VIA2 Timer 1 3 - VIA2 Timer 2 4-7 - Future expansion, set to 0 17 - VIA1 Timer 2 Latch 18 - VIA2 Timer 2 Latch 19 - VIA1 Timer 2 Timer 1A - VIA2 Timer 2 Timer 1B - NMI Flank. 0 - NMI was low since last time NMI was sampled 1 - NMI was high since last time NMI was sampled 1C - Memory configuration. If bit set, area is RAM. If bit clear, area is either ROM or unavailable. Each bit represents an 8Kb block of RAM. Bit: 0 - $0000-1FFF* 1 - 2000-3FFF 2 - 4000-5FFF 3 - 6000-7FFF 4 - (always set to 0, ROM) 5 - A000-BFFF 6 - (always set to 0, ROM) 7 - (always set to 0, ROM) *Note: The areas 0000-03ff and 1000-2000 are considered to be always occupied by RAM. For an unexpanded Vic, all blocks are set to 0. Setting only the low block (bit 0) it to 1 results in 3K RAM expansion. 1D-1E - 6502 PC (program counter) register 1F-20 - 6502 main flags Bit: 00 - Don't care 01 - Don't care 02 - Don't care 03 - Don't care 04 - Don't care 05 - Don't care 06 - Zero flag 07 - Sign flag 08 - Carry flag 09 - Set to 0 10 - Set to 0 11 - Set to 0 12 - Set to 0 13 - Set to 0 14 - Overlfow flag 15 - Set to 0 21 - 6502 A register 22 - Scan count. CPU cylce count within scan line. 0 - End of scan line 129 (NTSC) or 131 (PAL) - Start of scan line 23 - END of register state block. The rest of the file consists of the RAM and I/O areas. These are byterun compressed, and require source code to decode properly, which I will not get into here.