Re: ROMs replacement

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:25:58 +0200
Message-ID: <50577946.6060508@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 09/17/2012 09:16 PM, brain@jbrain.com wrote:
>
> On September 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>  >
>  > On 2012-09-17, at 19:50, Jim Brain wrote:
>  >
>
>  > > BUt, what does JP301 do in the schematic? I don't think I accounted
> for it, and I have just glanced at your schematic.
>  >
>  > As Gerrit already explained - it is there to select another 8K
> segment of the 27C256 for a second KERNAL. One BASIC, two KERNALs and
> two CHAROMs just fill up a 27C256 nicely.
>  >
> Ah, well, the '148 option gives you 8 banks to choose from (I used only
> 3, with a sub selection for CHARROM being only 4 kB).  Adding more
> options simply means routing the Select lines to another bank select.
> So, with a 3 pin jumper, you can add 2 KERNALs to the design (middle is
> KERNAL select, two ends are two inputs to the '148), but you can add
> more KERNALs as well or BASICs with just more jumpers.

Needs a larger EPROM though. 27C512 for example. Would give you 6 
KERNALs, 1 BASIC and 2 Char-ROM.

I'm looking forward to the finding out how you make the selections work.

  Gerrit



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