Re: DMA successes with Verilog

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:12:34 +0200
Message-ID: <20180612231234.000034d1@plea.se>
Den Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:59:54 +0100 skrev smf <smf@null.net>:
> Reminds me of the 90's when I started sketching out a DMA cart for
> the C64 using a PC parallel port and a load of 74LS (buffers for the
> address and data & then something more clever that waited for the bus
> to be available before firing everything).

I guess that the chances of getting any such setup to work is rather
high.

At least the parallell port on an Amiga can only in theory
supply data at 700kbyte/sec so writing from another computer to the C64
wouldn't even need hand shaking if picture is disabled so there
wouldn't be any bad lines.

> Unfortunately it's lost to time now (or fortunately because it saves
> my embarassment).

Seems like many hardware projects were started in the 90's and never
finished and thus saved us from embarassment ;) For example I tried
doing a ROM emulator for the Atari 2600 VCS video game, but newer got
it to work. Afterwards I realized that a good reason for it not working
could had been that I took all the 74xx chips from known broken
boards ;) ;)

> I'm not aware of a decent remote debugger for a real c64 still.

That is an interesting use of the DMA mode.

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Received on 2018-06-13 00:01:22

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