Re: Looking for info on, ROMs and software for SuperPET

Den Sat, 18 May 2019 21:37:52 +0200 skrev Bas Wassink
<b.wassink_at_ziggo.nl>:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm a VICE dev who normally only lurks here, but I have a request. I 
> mostly work on the Gtk3 UI of VICE, and a part of the UI is the
> SuperPET settings in xpet. I'd like to make sure the UI works
> correctly: widgets interacting and avoiding impossible combinations
> when it comes to the SuperPET.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've only seen a normal PET in the early eighties and 
> never touched one, let alone a SuperPET. So my question is if anyone
> has any software, non-standard/expansion ROMs and perhaps some tech
> docs on this SuperPET. VICE's xpet should properly emulate the
> SuperPET, but I'm missing files to test that and especially the Gtk3
> UI.
> 
> So, if anyone can point me to some of the stuff I'd like to have (my 
> google-fu seems to fail me), I would appreciate that a lot.

The key for having luck with google on this topic is to add the word
Waterloo.

University of Waterloo, in Canada, made the SuperPET together with
Commodore.

Some software seems to be available here:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/SuperPET/

Btw, I'm not familiar about how VICE handles the SuperPET. What would
be a great feature, if it isn't there already, is a way to connect the
6551 serial port on the SuperPET to the shell on the modern operating
system. IIRC the software that ran on the mainframes that the SuperPET
were supposed to connect to are also available somewhere online and it
would be great if it were possible to run this software combined with
the SuperPET emulation in VICE.

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