Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

And thanks Bill for the offer.

Right now I'm at a stand-still. I've run into an issue with my board. Nothing seems to work on it. I've had to pull the ROM socket because it no longer holds a chip.

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Would it be possible to use a couple of flip-flops to divide the RxC output to cover at least to 19200 baud. I have just gotten a 65C02 running on a breadboard at 1Mhz with a 65C51 (with bug) and a 65C22. I'm using the software delay loop and it's working great, but was thinking about giving this a try. Would you set the counter to 16 * 10 bits (start bit + 8 data bits + stop bit) so say 160 without FF divider or 40 with divider?

If you run your 65C51 @ 19200 bd and the 65C22 @ 1 MHz then no divider is required. One lazy way to figure out the correct counter preset would be to start with something large and reduce it until character transmission starts to show errors

As the 65C22 counts down you can start with 160 what sounds reasonable.


Don't forget to post your results!

Do you want the 65C51? These ones require no delay loops and work as designed. I don't even use handshaking. Polled by a CPU running at up to 20mHz and run at 19,200 baud. I have noticed the odd framing error in using them, but it does not seem to be related to the CPU speed because the errors happen at 1.8mHz too. Might just be my poling routine. But ti's not enough to be a bother.

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Actually, I got my board working again. I've made it work with the 65C51 that I have. I also bought a genuine 6551 and it seems to work well too.

So full steam ahead!

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Awesome!

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