Re: Hardware emulation of 6509 using 6502?

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:30:00 +0100
Message-ID: <1631800.mWkv6QFTt6@rakete>
Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2017, 12:48:05 CET schrieb Gerrit Heitsch:
> On 11/15/2017 12:44 PM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> >> On 2017-11-15, at 12:23, didier derny <didier@aida.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> not sure the 6502 from wdc sold by mouser are a direct remplacement of
> >> the 6502 used on our commodore...
> >> 
> >> I have a 6502 from wdc it never worked on any machine, apparently it
> >> needs an adapter for some signals...> 
> > AFAIR there are some pin differences with some extra signals and also GND.
> > 
> >> you got these fake 6502 from many sellers ? or from the same....
> > 
> > I bought it once from one seller. A larger batch. Tested a few randomly,
> > using the test prg for the floppy, gpz (AFAIR) pointed me to and it
> > showed only the slight difference on one (I think) illegal opcode, which
> > was supposedly to be all fine. The discussion should still be in the
> > archives. So the ugly bottoms of the chips aside things looked pretty
> > much OK. Until I started to get some difficult to explain errors with
> > some of my DD boards. It was not that they were some other chips
> > relabelled. They were definitely working, but not reliably.
> Illegal Opcodes were never guaranteed. If you want those to work, you
> have to stick to 6502 from MOS, everyone else might have made small
> changes to the mask or the process which caused some illegal opcodes to
> behave differently.

not entirely true - some second sources, eg rockwell, licensed the masks and 
the chips are identical to the MOS chips.


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