Re: (Fwd) 65816->6502

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:27:25 +0100
Message-ID: <20180313212725.00006abf@plea.se>
Den Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:25:23 +0100 skrev Anders Carlsson
<anders.carlsson@sfks.se>:
> Ruud wrote:
> 
> > Maybe interesting for some of you?
> >
> > http://www.a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=151
> 
> Availability: Out of Stock, but perhaps that is only temporarily?
> 
> Suitable for a PET, VIC-20 or 1541, I presume, though the listing
> mainly caters for Apple II.

In other words it's probably not tested in anything else than an Apple
II.

Apple II afaik has a memory map where you really don't have much incent
to rearrange stuff to gain more continous ram. Those Apple II that
have more than 48k ram seem to be able to bank switch between ram and
rom so only a 4k $Cxxx block is always occupied by I/O and I/O related
ROMs. So a total of 60k ram can be accessed simultaneously by the CPU.
(The reason for having 64k and also advertising it as 64k is probably
the Z80 add-ons for running CP/M).

http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/a2info/memorymap.shtml

On PET (except 8096/8296), VIC-20 and 1541, it's as we all know not
that nice. Therefore IMHO a 65816 add-on for those computers should
preferable also contain ram and a mechanism to bank switch between that
ram and the computers built in stuff. Also ram on a 65816 board makes
it possible to run code on the 65816 far faster.

But all this stuff would of course add to cost.

Btw has anyone tried what happens if you replace char rom (as seen from
the CPU) with RAM? Will the KERNAL ram test/detect routines mess up
with I/O?

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