Re: VIA shift register

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:52:19 +0100
Message-ID: <CAESs-_zbnYX0H666d0x6xCV61345SPV9+ZQVPaNHkMtvC_iFTA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:33 PM Pasi 'A1bert' Ojala <a1bert@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On 10.01.2019 17:22, smf wrote:
> > On 10/01/2019 08:11, André Fachat wrote:
> >> I know this solution, but IIRC this prevents bidirectional operation
> >> without extra direction control.
> >
> > Don't the c128 & 1571 have extra hardware for direction control on the
> > 6526 ?
>
> http://www.iki.fi/a1bert/Dev/burst (already mentioned earlier, but this
> is the "forever link"):
>
> "The C128 hardware includes a buffer driver between SRQ and the cassette
> read line so that cassette activity or cassette drive presence will not
> disturb the fast serial port. It also has a two-directional buffer that
> connects SRQ and DATA to the CIA1 synchronous serial port. The direction
> is controlled by the MMU chip. These buffers are required to hide the
> fast serial connection is C64 mode."

I can't find this bidirectional buffer in the C128 schematic
(zimmers). Wrong schematic?

Frank
Received on 2019-01-10 18:01:00

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