Hello, we all know that most of the 7501 / 8501 CPUs of the 264 series seem to be fragile and die easily and are very hard to replace if the one you have stops working. Now, the 6510 or 8500 of the C64 doesn't seem to have this problem. Officially it's not rated for the 1.7MHz the 8501 will run at, but I'd be surprised if it didn't, at that time all plain 6502 I have seen from MOS were the 'A'-type, rated for 2 MHz. Since the number of systems sold for the C64 is much higher, it's much easier to get your hands on a working 6510 or 8500 from an otherwise dead C64. I have one or two spare 6510 I'd be willing to risk as a replacement for dead 6510. I did a bit of side by side comparision (see below). The only signal I have a bit of a problem with is how 'Gate In' influences R/_W: From the TED system manual: R/_W is latched by the Gate In line to synchronize between a DRAM memory cycle and the processor clock cycle. If AEC is low when Gate In makes a low to high transition, the R/_W line will go to a high impedance state until the next transition of Gate In and AEC is high prior to the transition. It shouldn't be difficult to make that work, but so far I haven't been able to come up with a small and simple circuit for it. It would be nice if 2 TTL chips were enough. The other problem is that the 6510 only has 6 portbits (0-5) while the 8501 has 7. This means it won't be possible to run tape and IEC and even with only one option used the kernal routines would have to be changed. I no longer have my ROM listing, so I wouldn't be able to do that part. Also, they use Bit 6 and Bit 7 for input, which suggests to me either shifting them into the carry bit or using the BIT command to get their state. That would mean some extra code (time and spacewise) and could mean some rather large work. If you're lucky enough to own a 1551, you'd be able to just ignore the CPU I/O port... _______ _______ Phi0 in [1 V ] _RES Phi0 [1 V ] _RES RDY [ ] R/_W _HALT [ ] Phi2 _IRQ [ ] D0 _IRQ [ ] R/_W AEC [ M ] D1 _NMI [ M ] D0 Vcc [ O ] D2 AEC [ O ] D1 A0 [ S ] D3 Vcc [ S ] D2 A1 [ ] D4 A0 [ ] D3 A2 [ 8 ] D5 A1 [ 6 ] D4 A3 [ 5 ] D6 A2 [ 5 ] D5 A4 [ 0 ] D7 A3 [ 1 ] D6 A5 [ 1 ] P0 A4 [ 0 ] D7 A6 [ ] P1 A5 [ ] P0 A7 [ ] P2 A6 [ ] P1 A8 [ ] P3 A7 [ ] P2 A9 [ ] P4 A8 [ ] P3 A10 [ ] P6 A9 [ ] P4 A11 [ ] P7 A10 [ ] P5 A12 [ ] Gate In A11 [ ] A15 A13 [ ] A15 A12 [ ] A14 GND [_______] A14 A13 [_______] GND _______ [1 V ] [ [ ] ] [ [ ]-] 8501 6510 [ [ M ]-] ============ [-[ O ]-] 1 1 Phi0 [-[ S ]-] 2 2 RDY [-[ ]-] 3 3 _IRQ [-[ 6 ]-] 20 21 GND [-[ 5 ]-] 21 22 A14 [-[ 1 ]-] 22 23 A15 [-[ 0 ]-] 23 (*) [-[ ]-] 24 (**) [-[ ]-] 25 (**) [-[ ]-] 26 (**) [-[ ] ] 27 (**) [-[ ] ] 40 40 _RES [-[ ] ] [-[ ] ] [-[ ] ] [-[_______] ] [ ] Unused Signals on the 6510: _NMI (needs pullup) and Phi2 (*) Gate In Signal, needs extra logic (**) Portbits that can't be used 1:1 between 6510 and 8501 Any suggestions, comments or stuff I have overlooked? Gerrit Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-03-24 16:00:10
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