Re: Faster IEEE routines

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:52:34 -0500
Message-ID: <b3dbf22f-c50a-9bdc-2e73-8eab9b7defd1@jbrain.com>
On 5/24/2017 4:30 PM, Mike Naberezny wrote:
> On 5/24/17 2:02 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
>> How did you resolve the 6/2 versus 8/0 or 0/8 issue as part of the 
>> conversion, or did that issue force the effort to stop?
>
> I did get the SoftBox running with the CBM-II machines.  I came up 
> with a hack for the transceiver issue, which I explained here:
>
> https://github.com/mnaberez/softbox/blob/9957d6d85172937fec3eee97fdb46429e4e959cd/cbm/cbm2.asm#L233-L309 
>
>
> It depends on careful timing to know when the SoftBox is in a certain 
> state. This is possible because the SoftBox doesn't use interrupts.  I 
> don't like this solution but it does allow the unmodified SoftBox to 
> be used with the CBM-II machines.  It would be better to modify the 
> SoftBox so its protocol is compatible with the 75160/75161.  I also 
> disassembled the SoftBox BIOS so I might make that change at some point.
Impressive.

Did you decide on whether to create a reproduction of this unit?  It 
sounds like a cool thing to utilize, but I assume they are scarce.

Jim


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