Re: ROM Dump of Amiga Keyboard controller

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:07:36 +0200
Message-ID: <etPan.53fcb0c8.6b8b4567.2b8@szaman.lan>
On 2014-08-25 at 08:35:22, Gerrit Heitsch (gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de) wrote:

> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Also, this still doesn't explain why the 6570-036 works in my Amiga
> >>> keyboard while the 6571-036 doesn't, and the ROM dump results in
> >>> identical files. Did someone look at the dump to see if it looks like
> >>> code for a keyboard controller? It does a checksum test at power up.
> >>
> >> I know it's a long shot, but maybe your 6571-036 is kind of broken in
> >> a way, which still allows enough functionality to do what Jim did to it?
> >
> > Remember what Jim said happenned when he tried to use the dumper-in-RAM
> > method:
> >
> > > 6570 would generate a bunch of 0xff, but the 6571 gave me nothing.
> >
> > Maybe, the 6571's RAM has failed.
> 
> There is a blink code for failed RAM though.

True. Yet we can imagine situations where this wouldn't work, can't we? As I mentioned on the beginning - it's a long shot but as long as the pinout and the ROM code are the same - what else? Maybe some I/O port bits (which Jim didn't use)?


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