If you want to send me your schematic when done I can look to see if it matches all of the basic rules. If someone has the PLA terms for the 82s100 in the 64 (mine are in a box very buried) I can also proof the questions about the different signals by looking at the decode. 25 years ago these different signals were second nature, talk about brain erosion. Bil Herd > 3. I'm still concerned about the ROM portion of the layout. I know the address (A13-A0) and data lines, VCC, and GND are correct, but I've never laid out a ROM cart. The A17-A14 lines, the jumpering required when one goes from 28 pin JEDEC parts to 32 pin JEDEC parts, and whether I can let all the unused address lines float high on a smaller EPROM (the extra address lines have other functions on smaller EPROMs). I used Nicholas Welte's EPROM board as a guide, but his is not only mapping different size EPROMs, but converting them to 23XX/23XXX series layouts, so I'm not sure I read his design correctly. -----Original Message----- From: owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se] On Behalf Of Jim Brain Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:24 PM To: cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se Subject: Re: Additional cartridge ROM question Marko Mäkelä wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Jim Brain wrote: > >> But, if EXROM and GAME are LOW, but HIRAM and LORAM are low as well, do >> I get RAM at the two 8K locations, or does EXROM and GAME override any >> LORAM/HIRAM settings? >> > [...] > >> The PRG and the various web sites were not helpful in resolving my question. >> > > The PLA equations at > http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/c64/ > do answer your question. The shortest equation for CASRAM appears > in this file, which I haven't checked: > > http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/c64/c64pla.txt > OK, I plead ignorance at PLA equations. > I think your question was also answered by the article "Hiding kilobytes" > that I wrote for C=Hacking #7: > http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/chacking/c=hacking7.txt > It does. For some reason (probably the hour), I took "LORAM and HIRAM line" as external cart port lines, and ignored them, as I was looking for LORAM HIRAM in another part of the matrix (I know, it sounds stupid at this hour, but I swear it made perfect sense at 1AM or so). So, from this, I feel comfortable doing 16kB images (though, I left two jumpers on the board, so an enterprising sort can cut them and have 8kB image support (they'll lose the top end of each 16kB bank, but SMT jumpers are easy to add, they were already in the design, so I left them in. I added a hexadecimal DIP rotary encoder for the highest address lines, with appropriate pullups. I think the design is done. It's at http://www.jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/nic/ and I'd appreciate any comments. Specifically: 1. The resistor/diode logic that brings /CE low on the 27512 when either ROML OR ROMH goes low. It looks like it's been used on other carts (http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/cartridges/c64/freezer/MK.gif). 1. Is 10K for the resistor OK, or should I use 2.2K like the Action Replay? 2. Should I just forego this and put a single AND gate in there? It's $.31 versus $.23, and a few more pins (5 versus 3) 2. I determined that if another cart was on the bus and brought /ROML low, tying ROML directly to the /CE and /OE pins would bring this ROM into the address space. So, I put /ROML on /OE and put /CE on a switch to ground. That way, if the user deselects the /EXROM /GAME, the DPDT will also bring /CE high, preventing the ROM from appearing in the address space. Does that approach sound reasonable? 3. I'm still concerned about the ROM portion of the layout. I know the address (A13-A0) and data lines, VCC, and GND are correct, but I've never laid out a ROM cart. The A17-A14 lines, the jumpering required when one goes from 28 pin JEDEC parts to 32 pin JEDEC parts, and whether I can let all the unused address lines float high on a smaller EPROM (the extra address lines have other functions on smaller EPROMs). I used Nicholas Welte's EPROM board as a guide, but his is not only mapping different size EPROMs, but converting them to 23XX/23XXX series layouts, so I'm not sure I read his design correctly. Jim Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by IDSi's MailScanner. Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2009-03-25 02:53:42
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