Re: Plus/4 RS232 woes

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:26:22 -0500
Message-ID: <4cc3172a-b6fa-a86f-4ac8-02c0413b87b5@jbrain.com>
On 9/4/2018 2:09 PM, smf wrote:
> On 04/09/2018 18:32, Mia Magnusson wrote:
>> But then I found that driver on Aminet and it worked far better, and I
>> installed the original crystal instead and used 115200.
>
> This is from memory when I added support for this to mame as some 
> apple 3 software used it.
>
> The 6551 can work from an external crystal (XTAL1/XTAL2) to drive an 
> on board clock generator for asynchronous or an external TxC (XTAL1) 
> for synchronous comms.
>
> However if you turn off the on board clock generator then the 1.8mhz 
> crystal gets divided down by 16 and you get 115200.
>
> I have no idea if the chip designer would have a fit or not, it's 
> certainly not clear from the documentation that it should work at all.
>
>
>
It works as designed.  /16 mode gives 115200. The T232 used this to get 
115200 and 230400 (by using the 6551A and double clocking it)

JIm

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Received on 2018-09-05 03:00:07

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