Okay Ruud, --- Ruud Baltissen <Ruud.Baltissen@abp.nl> wrote: > If one can reprogram his PC's FLASH-BIOS, it cannot > be so difficult to add > this feature to our new design as well. > On the other hand I like the suggested idea of > loading the KERNAL in SRAM > but not from EPROM but from disk like an OS. Even a > combination should be > possible. He're what I had in mind. At power up the entire KERNAL is copied from a ROM into RAM. Then patches are loaded from a special RAM area that is not part of the main map and is not succeptible to power loss. The special RAM should be outside the main memory map in the same way C-128 VDC RAM is. It could be made "power-safe" a number of ways like (just off the top of my head": battery-backup like in Apple IIgs NOVRAM like in modems FlashROM like in PC BIOS That is what I mean by PRAM and I am not sure what technology would be best suited for such a design. Whatever technology is used, here is the type of thing the PRAM will be used for: custom key matrix system clock user customizeable KERNAL patches Another good thing to put there would be system I/O configurations defaults. For instance, what if you want to address a second SID chip at $DE00, but you already have Turbo 232 registers mapped there? Suppose you could map them both there and select between the two with a softswitch? Then, you'll need someplace to store your user-defined default configuration so the KERNAL can set the softswitches on powerup. Just an idea. I have no clue how it might be done. ===== Get a FREE 6Mb webmail box from go6502! - http://www.geocities.com/profdredd As low as 2.99% Intro APR from NextCard! - http://www.nextcard.com/index6.html?ref=aff0074521 PayPal is the FAST FREE and SECURE way to send money! - https://secure.paypal.x.com/refer/pal=profdredd%40yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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