Marko Mäkelä wrote: > I'd like to read the article Ok. Here it is. The source is "VIC= News no. 2/3, first year (1982)", a Swedish magazine founded by a VIC user group. Later it was renamed to "VIC= Rapport" and more or less officially adopted by Handic as the leading Swedish Commodore magazine until it disappeared in 1985 or so. The readers' letters in page 14, where Per-Olof Svensson in Karlstad says: I think I've found a couple of errors in the VIC-20's ROM: 1. When RS-232 is opened and you have the X-line interface, the DSR signal is tested on the wrong I/O port. ; OPEN RS-232 F50C LDA $0294 6551 command register F50F LSR A F510 BCC $F51B branch if 3-line F512 LDA $9120 ?? should be $9110 F515 ASL A F516 BCS $F51B branch if DSR=1 F518 JMP $F016 F51B LDA $029B continue 2. When you shall send on RS-232 and you have the X-line interface, DSR and CTS are tested on the wrong I/O port. ; TRANSMIT BYTE RS-232 EFEE LDA $0294 6551 command register EFF1 LSR A EFF2 BCC $EFFB branch if 3-line EFF4 BIT $9120 ?? should be $9110 EFF7 BPL $F016 branch if DSR=0 EFF9 BVC $F019 branch if CTS=0 EFFB LDA #0 continue ; SET STATUS (no error) F016 LDA #$40 DSR signal missing F018 BIT $10A9 F019 = LDA #$10 (CTS signal missing) F01B ORA $0297 RS-232 STATUS REGISTER F01E STA $0297 F021 LDA #$40 continue 3. When you shall read RS-232 status, the accumulator and the memory cell are loaded with zero after read. LDA, STA on address $FE60 and $FE62 could be replaced by e.g. LDX, STX? ; READST FE57 LDA $BA current device number FE59 CMP #2 FE5B BNE $FE68 branch if not RS-232 FE5D LDA $0297 RS-232 STATUS REGISTER FE60 LDA #0 ?? FE62 STA $0297 ?? FE65 RTS 4. When you execute PRINT INT(2.6*2-.2), the answer you get is 4, but the real answer should be 5. If I am correct, can get new ROMs? I still have a valid warranty. My serial number on my VIC is WG C 2367. The editor answered only the fourth question, by saying that many micro computers work in that way (INT rounds down also on negative numbers), so changing ROMs is out of the question. Also try the following: A=-2.6*2-.2 : PRINT INT(A) PRINT INT(-.2) The fourth question really is off-topic for us, but I thought I should mention all of Per-Olofs problems. So, here we have a few dumps from the KERNEL, and I just compared with the files submitted with VICE to find they're identical. The next question is whether Per-Olof was right. I don't know what the X-line interface is, and which VIA or whatever it is connected to. Does anyone want to investigate? Hmm. Quite a long mail. Let's hope somebody was interested. /Anders Carlsson - 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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