Re: ROM Dump of Amiga Keyboard controller

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:34:39 +0200
Message-ID: <53FAD8FF.4060708@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 08/24/2014 11:09 PM, Greg King wrote:
> On 2014-08-24 2:09 PM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>> On 2014-08-24 at 19:03:41, Gerrit Heitsch (gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, this still doesn't explain why the 6570-036 works in my Amiga
>>> keyboard while the 6571-036 doesn't, and the ROM dump results in
>>> identical files. Did someone look at the dump to see if it looks like
>>> code for a keyboard controller? It does a checksum test at power up.
>>
>> I know it's a long shot, but maybe your 6571-036 is kind of broken in
>> a way, which still allows enough functionality to do what Jim did to it?
>
> Remember what Jim said happenned when he tried to use the dumper-in-RAM
> method:
>
>  > 6570 would generate a bunch of 0xff, but the 6571 gave me nothing.
>
> Maybe, the 6571's RAM has failed.

There is a blink code for failed RAM though.

  Gerrit



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