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by RalfK
Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:00 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: Schaetzle + Bsteh : 6502 (chess) accelerators from the 80's
Replies: 4
Views: 3130

Re: Schaetzle + Bsteh : 6502 (chess) accelerators from the 8

65f02 wrote:
To get an idea what to expect, I Googled for photos.
You wouldn't have "binged" too much :-) This board is mine, the web site too.

My question until now is if this is the last and only board?
by RalfK
Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:29 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Interrupt on pin change
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Interrupt on pin change

BigEd wrote:
If the pulse length is much longer than the clock, [...]
For evaluation the DCF77 signal you must detect clock lengths of 100msec, 200msec, 800msec, 900msec, 1800msec and 1900msec. The accuracy of the signal is (estimated) +/-10%.
by RalfK
Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:55 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Interrupt on pin change
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Interrupt on pin change

Atlantis wrote:
Timer is easy - i already used MC6840 in my earlier designs. But what about pin change interrupt?
A 6522 should do both.
by RalfK
Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:54 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 65C816 on the 16 bit ISA bus
Replies: 10
Views: 1992

Re: 65C816 on the 16 bit ISA bus

Do you know that Apple offered the "Apple LocalTalk PC Card" in 1986? This ISA board is designed with a 65C02 @2MHz, SRAM, ROM, and a Z8530 SCC.
by RalfK
Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:07 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: OT: stacked (DIP) chips
Replies: 34
Views: 38140

Re: OT: stacked (DIP) chips

Are some of these triple-stacked, or are there more chips hiding somewhere, or did I miscount?
The mainboard of the Mac512 has 16 DRAMs (= 0.5MB). My piggyback board has 48 footprints which are 1.5MB. Altogether: 2MB. Double stacked: 4MB.

http://forum.6502.org/images/migrated/076342-000.jpg

We ...
by RalfK
Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:55 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: OT: stacked (DIP) chips
Replies: 34
Views: 38140

Re: OT: stacked (DIP) chips

May I add a design which I developed with a friend in the late 1980s? :-)

The Macs were very expensive at this time in West-Germany. We bought some second hand Mac 512. But we wanted to have more RAM and SCSI means we really wanted to get a full equipped Mac Plus. Megabit DRAMs were very expensive ...
by RalfK
Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:46 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68881 FPU and other FPU
Replies: 58
Views: 13373

Re: 68881 FPU and other FPU

So, while interfacing the 68882 to the 65xx bus is pretty simple at the hardware level, the software side is… not .

At mirrors.apple2.org.za (my first link) there is a disk image called Floating Point Engine Tools. The manual describes the interface to the hardware and the library. I would ...
by RalfK
Sun May 31, 2020 11:31 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68881 FPU and other FPU
Replies: 58
Views: 13373

Re: 68881 FPU and other FPU

It appears that an Apple II slot only provides 16 bytes of address space, [...]
There is another address space of 256bytes which is normally used for code. But you can use it also for I/O.

Additional document, Motorola's AN947 (MC68881 Floating-Point Coprocessor as a Peripheral in an 68000 System ...
by RalfK
Sun May 31, 2020 11:02 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68881 FPU and other FPU
Replies: 58
Views: 13373

Re: 68881 FPU and other FPU

I think a 1-chip interface solution - of which only half the chip is even used - is definitely simpler than the Z80 board linked earlier.

This solution interfaced to the AppleBus uses some chips more:
http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%20Project/Interface%20Cards/CPU ...
by RalfK
Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:12 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: List of 65816 Systems - Old/New; Commercial and Home-brew
Replies: 8
Views: 10218

Re: List of 65816 Systems - Old/New; Commercial and Home-bre

There was an addon board for the RamWorks board in the Apple IIe.

A bit more: the Apple IIe has a special slot called Auxiliary Slot which normaly was occupied by a simple 64kB RAM card. Applied Engineering developed some boards with 512kB, 1MB and more called RamWorks. This 65816 board is an ...
by RalfK
Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:03 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Display controller
Replies: 14
Views: 2739

Re: Display controller

EF9345 can do 40*25 and 80*25 text in color.

A similiar but elder chip is the Thomson EF9364: 64*16. Eltec used this chip with their Eurocom 1. The name of this additional board is VIC-1 . A German documentation.

This is the board:


Broken external image link
http://www.ralf-kiefer.de/VME ...
by RalfK
Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Display controller
Replies: 14
Views: 2739

Re: Display controller

I am looking for some way to add a display controller (with either composite or VGA output) to my 6502 retro computer design. My basic requirement is to do not use any modern microcontrollers or FPGAs doing the job. Only classic, retro chips.
What about an 80column card as built for the Apple II ...
by RalfK
Fri May 24, 2019 9:59 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Test harness for identifying fake 6502s
Replies: 37
Views: 5294

Re: Test harness for identifying fake 6502s

Software tests can do a lot to identify the particular CPU core within the chip, but there are also hardware differences surrounding that core which can be relevant - not least the '802 vs '816 distinction.
Ok, your goal is to see the unknown cpu running safely in a socket. If you have this cpu ...
by RalfK
Fri May 24, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Test harness for identifying fake 6502s
Replies: 37
Views: 5294

Re: Test harness for identifying fake 6502s

There is a small piece of code to detect the different variants of the 6502: NMOS, CMOS, Rockwell CMOS, 65802, early 6502 with bad ROR, Ricoh without decimal mode, Hudson HuC6280, Renesas 740 with/without MUL and DIV. In the case of NMOS you may be able to distinguish the different manufacturers by ...
by RalfK
Mon May 06, 2019 7:21 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Ideas for a faster TTL CPU //6502 related
Replies: 148
Views: 43803

Re: Ideas for a faster TTL CPU //6502 related


8231 arithmetic processor for the 6502. Nice.
Any facts on the compatibility between 8231, AM9511 and AM9512 ?

i8231 is compatible to AM9511, software and hardware. We bought the Intel chips because they need less power. The AM9512 is different in software and hardware.

I will mainly use the ...