[abc80] abc80x emulation status in MESS

[H. Peter Anvin]

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anders at abc80.net wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have found the schematics to Luxors controller card "Styrkort 55
>21046-11/21/41". This was used in ABC850/Tranfor DataStore and stand
>alone
>with all floppy drives together with ABC80x. I also have ROM dumps for
>this card.
>
>I can put the schematics in the scanner if there is any intensest in
>it...
>
>/Anders
>
>> It's the only controller I have schematics and ROMs for...
>>
>> I have a dump of the FD2 controller but no schematics.
>>
>> So the 80-column cards don't have a font ROM at all?
>> Do they use an MC6845 or TTL logic for the display?
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>  From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
>> To: Curt Coder <curtcoder at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "abc80 at abc80.org" <abc80 at abc80.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 8:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [abc80]  abc80x emulation status in MESS
>>
>> On 08/05/2012 09:17 AM, Curt Coder wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The Luxor computers should be fully operational in MESS except for
>the
>>> exceptions listed below:
>>>
>>> abc80
>>> - cassette read
>>> - floppy (slow controller requires Z80 RDY emulation which we don't
>have
>>> yet)
>>>
>>
>> Any specific reason you insist on using the slow controller for
>ABC80?
>>
>> There were so many controllers and floppy disk solutions for ABC80
>(there
>> were at least three vendors - Scandia Metric's FD series, Luxor's ABC
>> series, and Tranfor's Datadisc series, and of these Luxor's was
>probably
>> the least popular for ABC80) that I don't think anyone cared about
>the
>> exact timings.
>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently looking for the following to complete the emulation:
>>>
>>> - dumps for ABC80 peripherals (80-column cards, BASIC V1, etc)
>>
>> BASIC v1 being the one that is generally known as "checksumma 11273"
>I
>> believe.  The 80-column card changed only a handful of memory
>locations
>> when invoked, unfortunately I only have the patch for checksum 9913
>(BASIC
>> v1.02).  Which exact patch depended on the exact 80-column card you
>used;
>> there were at least three variants from I believe two different
>vendors,
>> one (Gejo) which put the extra RAM at 7400h-77FFh (29696) -- early
>> versions 7800h-7BFFh but that conflicted with the printer -- and one
>> (MyAB's TKN80, probably the more popular) which put it at 5800h-5FFFh
>so
>> that it would be contiguous (5C00h-5FFFh being a shadowed to
>7C00h-7FFFh)
>> but that caused problems with other peripherals...
>>
>> The only difference between the three models as far as the BASIC ROM
>is
>> concerned is the address table at address 884 decimal (0374h) which
>> contains the start address for each of the 24 lines.  The additional
>> changes for checksum 9913 were:
>>
>>     Address        Value
>>     ---------------------
>>     0x01d8        0x50
>>     0x0211        0x50
>>     0x024e        0x50
>>     0x026f        0x4f
>>     0x02de        0x50
>>     0x033c        0x50
>>     0x22f2        0xa0
>>
>> My FPGA model mimics the later Gejo version (7400h).
>>
>>     -hpa
>>
>> -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
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