Re: Schematic for 80 Column Adapter for C64

Is that 82S100 the same as the one in the early C64 rev. boards?

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On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:19 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:

>
> On 2013-08-18, at 15:57, Steve Gray wrote:
>
>>> BTW - it reminds me like some years ago I put my hands on the  
>>> XEP-80 (an 80-column add-on for Atari "8-bitters"). This thing  
>>> plugs into... joystick port and joystick ports are the same in  
>>> both C64 and Atari series! Since I always wanted 80 columns too,  
>>> I immediately plugged this into my 64, spent a whole weekend  
>>> writing a driver that would properly serialize data and handle  
>>> required communication timings, then I bound it to the KERNAL so  
>>> that the default screen I/O would go over the XEP, and... yeah..  
>>> "gotcha!". Only then, when trying to type-in the first LOAD  
>>> command on the XEP display, I realized that no matter how hard I  
>>> try, I shall never be able to use the 80-cols display AND the  
>>> keyboard at the same time. I don't ever recall feeling as stupid  
>>> as I felt that Sunday evening... ;-)
>
>>
>> I also picked up an xep80 hoping to get it working on the c64. I  
>> suppose you could connect it to the user port instead of the  
>> joystick port... Perhaps to one of those userport joystick adapters.
>
> After getting out of the mental hangover state I mentioned above, I  
> made an adapter and connected it to CASSETTE port (USER PORT is  
> constantly occupied by DolphinDOS parallel connection ;-) but my  
> enthusiasm was nowhere close to the level when I still naively  
> believed (and wondered why nobody has ever done this before!  
> Imagine?) that it could be handled purely with software and without  
> any modifications or extra adapters.
>
> -- 
> SD!
>
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