Re: Got IEC code working

From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2004-05-25 23:50:08

ncoplin@orbeng.com wrote:

>Hi Jim,
>
>  
>
>>Why send UNTALK over the wire?  Can;t the peripheral just assume that 
>>when it completes sending data?  I figure the answer has something to do 
>>with FILE reads, but I have not gotten there.
>>    
>>
>
>In most cases the peripheral does know when it finishes, afterall it sends
>an EOI (tells the C64 the next byte is the last). In this case the UNTALK is
>almost a confirmation. More importantly however, imagine this. You are
>"loading" a program, then press RUN/STOP. The C64 has to tell the drive to
>stop sending data. It signals ATN, with an UNTALK.
>
>- Nick
>
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That's fine.  My code switches back into IDLE state when ATN goes low.  
I just wanted to make sure that switching to IEC_CMD_STATE_IDLE after a 
successful data transfer would not cause issues.

Now, I am stumped for a good RS-232 protocol to support data transfers.  
Obviously, the serial port doesn;t really have an ATN line (I gave some 
thought ot using DTR, but that won't work on all environments, cannot be 
read by all OS's (without IOCTLs and such)), so I need to way to 
deliniate commands, data, and EOI on the serial port... (Yes, I could 
write a higher level set of code in the controller, and I will, but I 
assume some people will want essentially RAW data....

I came up with this, but it's just a stab at something, comments are 
appreciated:

(all data in hex)
FF is "command" char.  If it appears in data stream, replace with FF FE

FF 00   reset interface
FF 01 X   listen as device X
FF 02 X unlisten as device X
FF 03 X <data>    configure virtual device X
FF 04 end of cmd/sync

FF 10   reset IEC bus
FF 11 IEC CMD
FF 12 IEC Data
FF 13 IEC EOI
FF 14 X Turn ON error LED   (if just one device, X is unimportant, just 
discard it.)
FF 15 X Turn OFF error LED

I have some other higher level commands, but wondered what folks thought 
of these.  I tried to decipher Marko's format, but I can;t figure it out...

Jim


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