Re: C64 MMU POC

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:18:10 -0500
Message-ID: <a55e2719-62d7-87ad-af00-7ae704370097_at_jbrain.com>
On 7/10/2019 11:51 AM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> On 7/10/19 6:01 PM, Francesco Messineo wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting...  So, you'd read several bytes whose value you actually
>>> don't care about...  but the decoder hardware would recognize *which*
>>> bytes you'd read; and, from that, infer what MMU operation you wanted?
>>
>> exactly. That's how the bank switching for RAM/ROM banks work on the
>> 16K language card of the Apple II for example.
>
> That's also how the RAM/ROM switching works in TED from the 264 
> series. You write to address $FF3E to enable ROM and to $FF3F to 
> enable RAM. It's only the write cycle to these addresses that matters, 
> not what you write.
>
>  Gerrit
>
>
>
For reference, the 6847 does the same.  All of the config of the IC is 
done that way.


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