Re: MS-DOS 3.30 boot on the CBM-II

From: André Fachat <afachat_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:27:33 +0100
Message-ID: <15f8e14dd88.2813.b4d1f2b66006003a6acd9b1a7b71c3b1@gmx.de>
Am 5. November 2017 10:10:50 PM schrieb Michał Pleban <lists@michau.name>:

> Hello!
>
> Mia Magnusson wrote:
>
>> Yeah, for that price you might aswell look into a real GPIB interface
>> for PC (one that can let another unit be controller) and run better
>> software on the PC to emulate whatever you want.
>
> Are there such interfaces? It might be the best solution not only for
> this project, bot for interfacing to PET/CBM-II in general.
>

The problem with the CBM IEEE488 is that it has non-standard timing properties.

I don't remember the details right now. This IIRC not only concerns the ATN 
response but also relations between signal transitions. So you will need to 
drive the lines directly, which may require creating kernel drivers.

If you have direct hardware access, you can adapt the xd2031 firmware to 
run on the PC instead of an AtMega (it runs on the PC already but only for 
unit and integration tests for now).

André



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