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by Sean
Thu Feb 26, 2026 5:18 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Beware of the TL16C2752 DUART
Replies: 10
Views: 843

Re: Beware of the TL16C2752 DUART

Could you use a 65C22 for your PIT?
by Sean
Wed May 01, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: DMX Output board for 6502 based systems
Replies: 20
Views: 3057

Re: DMX Output board for 6502 based systems

" DMX512 , a communications protocol that is most commonly used to control stage lighting and effects"
I have to admit I had no idea what DMX512 was before doing an Internet search on it. My knowledge of stage lighting stops in the era when Variacs controlled things. :D

I forgot... DMX512 or ...
by Sean
Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: address-of (&) fragment error (ca65)
Replies: 6
Views: 16038

Re: address-of (&) fragment error (ca65)

I.e. What is a loader? Are you referring to the ld65 configuration file, if so I have this. It took me a while setup my memory and segments.
If you mean something else, and it's not too much trouble, could you please provide a snippet of code, so I can learn and experiment with it. That would be ...
by Sean
Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: Newbies
Topic: Build 6502 with TTL components
Replies: 26
Views: 50166

Re: Build 6502 with TTL components

I decided to follow this block diagram found in C74 project and its successor TTL 6502 Here I come (2015) and I haven't read all articles about both project, the questions:

Why this block diagram C74 project have a lot of registers in compare with the 6502 block diagram?

What modifications in C74 ...
by Sean
Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: OT: Eclipse
Replies: 10
Views: 6249

Re: OT: Eclipse

We drove about 75 miles west to very near the center line of the path. At totality, we could see the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, and Earth. Very cool. (And then my alternator bit the bullet in the heavy stop and go traffic on the way back. Sigh. Fixed now.)
by Sean
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: 8-Bit Guy Video on the 6502
Replies: 5
Views: 3711

Re: 8-Bit Guy Video on the 6502

Yup, very nicely condensed. Interestingly I hadn't realised the X16 would just work with a 65C816; I'm guessing it must just ignore the bank address and still use the X16's bank switching.

That's what I am guessing from what I was looking at yesterday in their latest documentation in GitHub, and ...
by Sean
Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: The idea of RISC-V based modern retro computer
Replies: 12
Views: 6384

Re: The idea of RISC-V based modern retro computer

commodorejohn wrote:
It'd certainly be nice to see something done with RISC-V besides "yet another platform to run *nix on, but X% more Stallman-approved."
I could swear I've seen RISC-V used as a microcontroller core, too.
by Sean
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Using STDIN/STDOUT on my SBC project
Replies: 29
Views: 11761

Re: Using STDIN/STDOUT on my SBC project

Fortunately, I don't think too many people are seeing these difficulties, as there are so many thriving open source projects on github and gitlab.

The repository search feature in the GitHub web site is fairly good for finding repositories. The search for finding files within a repository by name ...
by Sean
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Using STDIN/STDOUT on my SBC project
Replies: 29
Views: 11761

Re: Using STDIN/STDOUT on my SBC project

Alan Cox has a C compiler under development that includes 6502 and 65816 support as part of his FUZIX Compiler Kit project. I don't think it is production ready yet, and I believe it has some limitations due to its intended use as part of the FUZIX project. No idea how good it is. Source is at https ...
by Sean
Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: 6502 VT100 Terminal(?)
Replies: 17
Views: 9268

Re: 6502 VT100 Terminal(?)


Interesting stuff.. Is it nonsense? Well, you're not doing anything new - we did this on Apple IIs and BBC Micros and everything else we used back in the day - even if you look at older terminals, they often had am early CPU in them like the 6800 or 8080 - and a genuine DEC VT100 has an 8080A ...
by Sean
Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:12 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Audio IC
Replies: 27
Views: 13062

Re: Audio IC

I ran across a page of microcontroller audio projects. Perhaps there are some ideas that could be cadged from there.

http://elm-chan.org/he_a_e.html
by Sean
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What open source Basic interpreters are there?
Replies: 18
Views: 17354

Re: What open source Basic interpreters are there?

Paul Scott Robson has several open source (MIT license) Basic implementations for 6502 systems available on GitHub at https://github.com/paulscottrobson. These include SuperBasic for the Foenix C256 Junior, MegaBasic for the Mega65, and several others. I'm not sure how mature each one is. Some are ...
by Sean
Wed May 10, 2023 3:13 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 6522 as memory sequencer.
Replies: 24
Views: 7352

Re: 6522 as memory sequencer.

Sounds like what you want is a DMA engine, along the lines of the Commodore REU .

That seems really difficult to implement with a 6522, not least because when a DMA engine is running you need to halt the CPU (using the RDY line on the 6502).

The Commodore REU may be near-unobtanium these days ...
by Sean
Tue May 09, 2023 6:33 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Working around the W65C51 transmit buffer empty bug
Replies: 61
Views: 38698

Re: Working around the W65C51 transmit buffer empty bug

Does anybody know if the UART's on the WDC microcontrollers (W65C134, W65C265) suffer from the same bug as the W65C51?
by Sean
Sat May 06, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Expansions from Unused Memory Locations
Replies: 9
Views: 3812

Re: Expansions from Unused Memory Locations

Hello everyone!

I've been fiddling with my next SBC revision's logic, and I found a way to set aside 4KB of unused memory in the $B000-$BFFF area. I've been thinking of all the things I could do with it, expansion boards and whatnot. Things like an additional 6522 VIA, or perhaps a way to set up ...