Message #139731

[SimonLothar]

For me as an asm coder it is important to know this because I can't rely on C routines.

ASM and C/C++ are both important tools, if you want to program the Prizm (as well as the fx-9860 series). I daresay it is not possible to avoid either of them. Of course you have to decide carefully, which of both is the appropriate tool in a certain situation. Though, mostly it will be C. Anyhow the next version of the miniSDK will accept assembler-source-modules as well.

What I think we need is a long explanation of how insight exactly works

INSIGHT is a C-program. Therefore a pre-condition to understand INSIGHT is the knowledge of C. I am sorry not to have a better message. But myhap it is not this bad, if you should decide to learn C.

and syscalls. An explanation from the ground up would be very helpful

I tried to explain the use of syscalls from out of assembler here:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic=5610.msg124495#msg124495

...Last time I checked the VRAM-DMAC was still undocumented.

I documented the VRAM-DMAC-syscalls 0x025F and 0x0260 the first time in the HTMLHELP-file of miniSDK version 1.03.