Re: Ultimate-64

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:41:18 +0000
Message-ID: <f6a7e0c2-5e30-df38-d998-0c62d2a82c45@null.net>
On 15/03/2018 10:22, Marko Mäkelä wrote:

>
> The only hardware feature request that I can think of is connectors or 
> adapters for detached keyboards, so that you could attach a C128D or 
> 8032-SK or SX-64 keyboard. I guess normally one might attach a USB 
> keyboard, and the VHDL would emulate a keyboard matrix.

I already put in a request to add some extra io pins for the c128 
keyboard. He didn't say no. The external keyboard on the C128d is just 
an extension of the internal pin header, I suspect the others are as 
well. That and the mechanical issues of fitting the motherboard into a 
different case are things that can be done at your own pace once you can 
buy one.

>
> For covering the PET or PET-2 features, another nice-to-have would be 
> an IEEE-488 interface. I wonder if it would be possible or feasible to 
> implement this by using a USB adapter and translating the interface in 
> VHDL. (Which ones are good?  I have a HP laboratory power supply that 
> I might like to control via GPIB.) 

There is a user port internally and you have the cartridge port, you 
should be able to add a C64 IEEE-488 interface (or build something 
similar) and hook it up to the pet2 emulation.
Received on 2018-03-15 12:04:10

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