Re: Jeri board and extra things

jbevren_at_starbase.globalpc.net
Date: 2001-05-03 15:11:41

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ruud Baltissen wrote:

> > The idea is excellent! In the old days you could expand the expansion slot
> > with more slots. The producers claimed that their cards made it possible
> to
> > activate only the card of your choice using switches. But I found out that
> > no card worked as it should. I had my own ideas about it but your idea
> just
> > revived it. Will tell more about it tomorrow.
> 
> And that is now.
> 
> The problem was that one expansion only disconnected +5V, the other only the
> I/O lines etc. etc.
> 
> IMHO the following lines have to be disabled in one or another way:
> - EXROM
> - GAME
> - CLK2

Keep this connected in case you need it for ram refresh or a clock.

> - ROML
> - ROMH
> - IO1
> - IO2
> 
> For every slot one 541 will do to connect the above signals with the C64.
> One 573 is enough to handle up to 8 slots.
> 
> The only problem is maybe the lengh of the busses. We cannot equip this slot
> expander with buffers as we have no means to tell when the buffer should be
> activated and, more important, in what direction.
> 
> Groetjes, Ruud
> 
> http://Ruud.C64.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
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