-- Is the TMS34010 display controller enabled, and what does the firmware have -- in the display registers? The video renderer (and therefore the driver's -- scanline/frame dump) only runs when DPYCTL bit 15 is set. -- -- DPY_FRAMES=600 vt1200 ... -autoboot_script harness/mame/dpyctl.lua local machine = manager.machine local cpu = machine.devices[':maincpu'] local dbg = machine.debugger local prog = cpu.spaces['program'] local maxframes = tonumber(os.getenv("DPY_FRAMES") or "600") local every = tonumber(os.getenv("DPY_EVERY") or "50") local n = 0 local seen_enabled = false local function rd(a) return prog:read_u16(a) end emu.register_frame_done(function() n = n + 1 local dpyctl = rd(0xc0000080) if (dpyctl & 0x8000) ~= 0 then seen_enabled = true end if n % every == 0 then print(string.format( "frame %5d DPYCTL=%04X%s CONTROL=%04X DPYSTRT=%04X DPYINT=%04X DPYTAP=%04X DPYADR=%04X", n, dpyctl, (dpyctl & 0x8000) ~= 0 and " " or "", rd(0xc00000b0), rd(0xc0000090), rd(0xc00000a0), rd(0xc00001b0), rd(0xc00001e0))) end if n >= maxframes then print("display enabled at any point: " .. tostring(seen_enabled)) machine:exit() end end, "vt1200-dpyctl") dbg.execution_state = 'run'