Hiya Anders, --- "Carlsson, Anders" <dal95acn@mds.mdh.se> wrote: > Professor Dredd <profdredd@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > The bug means that "Data Set Ready" will ALWAYS be > true when using > > the VIC KERNAL. "Clear To Send" also doesn't work > and the VIC > > Programmer's Reference Guide implies as much (so I > understand). > > So, the obvious question from a stupid luser like me > will be: do > these bug(s) prevent proper communication, or was it > known early > and programmers would waste a few bytes on copying > the routines > to RAM and patch them if needed? I can only assume that programmers who needed hardware handshaking wrote their own routines. Could someone with a VIC-20 PRG please check to see what the exact word is about CTS? I never did much telecommunicating on the VIC-20, if any at all. I think I may have loaded VIC-Term from cassette once just to watch it work. > Of course the bugs had to be fixed in the 64, since > it uses CIA > instead of VIA, and that is located at a different > place in the > memory map.. Yes, you are probably correct about that. I would assume the VIC-20 bugs were never fixed because telecommunications from personal computers was done mostly at 300 baud. At such a slow speed, I suspect most terminals depended on "X-On/X-Off" protocol for flow control. It was well suited for such slow connections. ===== Get a FREE 6Mb webmail box from go6502! - http://www.geocities.com/profdredd PayPal - The FAST FREE and SECURE way to send money. https://secure.paypal.x.com/refer/pal=profdredd%40yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.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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