RE: C64/VIC Bus state during RESET

From: Bil Herd (bherd_at_idsbusiness.com)
Date: 2008-11-07 00:20:15

As we found on the C128, a VIC is like a dump truck on the loose and it
don't stop for no blinking reset line. I had to laugh a few months back
when I pulled out the schematics for a c128D and saw that we conditioned
the reset line a little so the VIC wouldn't go clobbering the first
couple of cycles in a Z80 (before the Z starts paying attention to the
AEC)

Bil Herd  
(hopefully reset my source address to whatever I signed up with a while
back)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se]
On Behalf Of Jim Brain
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 1:10 AM
To: CBM Hackers
Subject: Re: C64/VIC Bus state during RESET

Jim Brain wrote:
> If I was to turn on a C64 or VIC and hold RESET low, do any of the ICs

> hold the address or data bus?  in other words, if I had a RAM on the 
> bus (on a card, let's say), could I use another CPU not under RESET to

> read/write to it?
>
> Jim
>
Never mind for C64.  As Adrian pointed out, VIC-II refreshes and data 
pulls still occur.

I don't have a VIC-20 setup to scope.  Anyone remember?

Jim

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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations                                      (X)
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Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! 
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