Re: Looking for info on, ROMs and software for SuperPET

On 2019-05-19 04:42, Mia Magnusson wrote:
> Den Sat, 18 May 2019 21:37:52 +0200 skrev Bas Wassink
> <b.wassink_at_ziggo.nl>:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm a VICE dev who normally only lurks here, but I have a request. I
>> mostly work on the Gtk3 UI of VICE, and a part of the UI is the
>> SuperPET settings in xpet. I'd like to make sure the UI works
>> correctly: widgets interacting and avoiding impossible combinations
>> when it comes to the SuperPET.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I've only seen a normal PET in the early eighties and
>> never touched one, let alone a SuperPET. So my question is if anyone
>> has any software, non-standard/expansion ROMs and perhaps some tech
>> docs on this SuperPET. VICE's xpet should properly emulate the
>> SuperPET, but I'm missing files to test that and especially the Gtk3
>> UI.
>>
>> So, if anyone can point me to some of the stuff I'd like to have (my
>> google-fu seems to fail me), I would appreciate that a lot.
> The key for having luck with google on this topic is to add the word
> Waterloo.
>
> University of Waterloo, in Canada, made the SuperPET together with
> Commodore.
>
> Some software seems to be available here:
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/SuperPET/

Thank you, that will be useful.

> Btw, I'm not familiar about how VICE handles the SuperPET. What would
> be a great feature, if it isn't there already, is a way to connect the
> 6551 serial port on the SuperPET to the shell on the modern operating
> system. IIRC the software that ran on the mainframes that the SuperPET
> were supposed to connect to are also available somewhere online and it
> would be great if it were possible to run this software combined with
> the SuperPET emulation in VICE.

VICE (xpet) allows that already, you can connect the ACIA to a serial 
device on the host/use an IPv4 address, dump to file and pipe to a 
process. I don't know how well this is implemented, never tried it 
myself. I suppose a little BASIC program on the SuperPET side and 
netcat/telnet on the host might allow me to test this.