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T-State Count of Undocumented IXH / IXL / IYH / IYL instructions
« on: September 03, 2010, 11:17:28 am »
This is more of a curosity question than anything else, but if one uses the undocumented instructions to access the lower and upper bytes of IX and IY, does it take -- approximately -- twice the number of T-States as it takes for their equivalents in H and L to execute?
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Re: T-State Count of Undocumented IXH / IXL / IYH / IYL instructions
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 11:25:39 am »
Nope. Here is the way I look at it. $DD or $FD each take 4 t-states to run. Which in turn means that all ix iy commands take four t-states longer.

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ld a, h ;4
ld a, ixh ;8

jp (hl) ;4
jp (ix) ;8

ld h, $FF ;7
ld ixh, $FF ;11
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Re: T-State Count of Undocumented IXH / IXL / IYH / IYL instructions
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 11:25:57 am »
Quote from: Hot_Dog on September 03, 2010, 11:17:28 am
This is more of a curosity question than anything else, but if one uses the undocumented instructions to access the lower and upper bytes of IX and IY, does it take -- approximately -- twice the number of T-States as it takes for their equivalents in H and L to execute?
It adds 4 clock cycles (which are used to execute the $DD or $FD prefix). Note that you cannot load these upper/lower bytes of IX/IY to/from memory though.
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