Re: ROM Dump of Amiga Keyboard controller

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:18:33 -0500
Message-ID: <53B84F89.70107@jbrain.com>
On 7/5/2014 1:20 PM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> On 07/05/2014 08:13 PM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>> On 2014-07-05 at 20:02:07, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl 
>> (silverdr@wfmh.org.pl) wrote:
>>
>>> again the datasheet if they really meant "$(0)FFF" and not just 
>>> shortened the full "$FFFF"
>>> ;-) But it also clearly states that only 2KiB of ROM is available. 
>>> Impressive.
>>
>> I was also interested how they did it internally. Like if they 
>> changed the 6502 core (doubtful) or for example wired the two upper 
>> address nybbles together or something like that...
>
> That should be easy for Jim to find out. Dump page 0F und page FF and 
> see what you get...
Ran the test.  page ff and page f show the same data.

>
> Maybe they just made the upper 4 address bits "don't care" by not 
> including them into any selection logic? That way their state doesn't 
> matter and you don't need to change the CPU core at all.
Since that's the easiest to do and requires the least amount of IC 
space, I'm voting for that.



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