Re: Microcontroller "PEEKing" into C64 memory?

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:18:28 +0100
Message-ID: <3477414.6k0Gs5TtDg@rakete>
On Thursday 21 January 2016, 21:11:12 silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> > On 2016-01-21, at 19:56, Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 1/21/2016 12:32 PM, Per Olofsson wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 05:18 PM, Leif Bloomquist wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> I have an idea for a project that would require an external
> >>> microcontroller to be able to "peek" into parts of the C64 Memory.
> >>> 
> >>> It wouldn't matter where.  I/O1 and I/O2 might be easiest, but some
> >>> unused space like $02A7-$02FF could also work and not interfere with
> >>> external devices.   Only would need 8 bytes or so.
> >>> 
> >>> What would be the easiest way to go about this?
> >> 
> >> If what you need is mirroring of a portion of C64 ram I have a FIFO
> >> based bus snooping design that could work, but I haven't had a chance to
> >> verify it.
> > 
> > I'd also be interested in a design, as I have a few ideas that need such
> > an integration.  I had been planning to implement 8 registers in a CPLD
> > with dual port access, but maybe there are better ways to do this...
> How do CPU carts access the RAM? I mean how the external CPUs do it from the
> EXPANSION port.

using the DMA line (which halts the internal CPU and removes it from the bus)

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