Re: a CIA riddle - please run these tests

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:19:53 +0200
Message-ID: <0bbb291d-a688-b4b2-c51c-3ead466113d3_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 6/19/20 1:43 PM, silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2020-06-19, at 13:04, groepaz_at_gmx.net wrote:
>>
>>>> Since you consistently use singular above, which CIA position matters?
>>>
>>> The tests in the zip use CIA1 to prevent any interference with the IEC bus
>>> (which shouldnt be a problem, but who knows). In a C128 thats U1, afaik.
>>
>> i attached another zip on the ticket at sourceforge, which contains the tests
>> for CIA2 - so you can run both if you have different ones in the machine.
> 
> I took the one from:
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>   https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/_discuss/thread/
> 538e31942f/ba33/attachment/cia-shiftregister-tests.zip
> 
> There's discrepancy on the naming between readme and files:
> 
> ... Now run the "delay2-new" and "delay-old" ...
> 
> there's "delay2-old. But..
> 
> Both CIAs are marked 1386 (I expect it to be "new")

No, datecode 1386 is still an NMOS CIA and therefore an old one. The 
switchover came at the end of 1986 on the 250466 boards. Datecode 4x86 
is likely to be new.

  Gerrit
Received on 2020-06-19 15:00:42

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