Re: cbm 8032 io area $e800-$e8ff decoding

Not too hard, probably too expensive; why add another chip unless you have to.

Don't forget the CRTC at A7...

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Gray 
  To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 7:25 PM
  Subject: Re: cbm 8032 io area $e800-$e8ff decoding


  Mike,


  You're right. $E800-E80F does not appear to be used. I guess checking for the absence of A4,A5, and A6 is too hard ;-) I'm not sure why they didn't decode the $E8xx range properly?


  Steve




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  From: Mike Stein <mhs.stein@gmail.com>
  To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 6:34 PM
  Subject: Re: cbm 8032 io area $e800-$e8ff decoding



  I don't see anything at $E800 - $E80F; what uses it, if anything?

  m
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Steve Gray 
    To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 4:38 PM
    Subject: Re: cbm 8032 io area $e800-$e8ff decoding


    Nope, there's no un-allocated space in that range. This has been my problem with my ColourPET project. Firstly, I use a 4K edit rom, which means the area from $E900-EFFF is used for that. Then I want to allocate $8800-8FFF for 80-column colour ram. If you use any option roms then $9xxx and $Axxx are out. That really doesn't leave anywhere in the memory map for anything else.


    So, assuming you dont have a ColourPET board (ha!) YOU could use $8800-$8FFF. It's free. 


    If you are using a 2K Edit ROM you can use $E900-E9FF, however if you have a SuperPET it will use $EFEx-EFFF for it's memory control and ACIA chip.


    What I'm thinking of doing is making a board that mounts on the 6545 CRTC chip socket and intercepts the chip select signal, then runs it through a 3-8 decoder using A1,A2,A3. This will let me use output 0 for the CRTC and then I would have outputs 1-7 for my own use.


    Steve




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    From: didier derny <didier@aida.org>
    To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 3:30 PM
    Subject: cbm 8032 io area $e800-$e8ff decoding


    Hi

    Is there any solution to use in area between $e800-$e8ff to add extra 
    chips ?  (PIA / ACIA) ?

    is the decoding partial and standard chips shadowed  or any free places ?

    --
    didier




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