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Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:06 pm
by dragos
You should join us in IRC Frenoode, channel c64friends

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:45 pm
by srowe
I'll have a go, not sure what timezone you're in?

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 7:41 pm
by dragos
I am EST, but I lurk all day :)

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:37 pm
by srowe
dragos wrote:most disk commands... dload and dsave work, but header, catalog, directory, ds and ds$ do not

on a real vic, they just return nothing, in vice they lock up...
Does anyone know where this BASIC4 ROM came from? It has an IEEE command but it's expecting registers in IO3/ (and IO0/??) so it's not designed to work with the VIC-1112 (which only uses IO2/).

The lockup in VICE is here

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la12c	lda $9c02
	and #$20
	beq la12c
I don't know of any addon card this could be for.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:27 pm
by eslapion
srowe wrote:Does anyone know where this BASIC4 ROM came from? It has an IEEE command but it's expecting registers in IO3/ (and IO0/??) so it's not designed to work with the VIC-1112 (which only uses IO2/).

The lockup in VICE is here

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la12c	lda $9c02
	and #$20
	beq la12c
I don't know of any addon card this could be for.
I remember recovering Basic V4 back in 2006. It works well on a 1541 drive.

I also remember it occupies only the lower half of BLK5. AFAIK, the firmware for the VIC-1112 is supposed to use the upper half of BLK5.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:54 am
by srowe
eslapion wrote: I also remember it occupies only the lower half of BLK5. AFAIK, the firmware for the VIC-1112 is supposed to use the upper half of BLK5.
I don't agree that these two ROMs were intended to work together. They both intercept some of the same vectors and BASIC4 has code (such as I showed above) that implies it expects hardware with different registers to the VIC-1112.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:20 am
by eslapion
@srowe
I have mostly used Basic V4 for the VIC-20 by itself, never in conjunction with anything other than VICMON and/or Programmer's Aid and the ones I had before 2006 only reside in BLK3.

I am very surprised Basic V4 has routines that accesses registers in IO3.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 6:26 am
by crock
Does anyone know when this is likely to ship? I haven't seen an update in ages.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:56 am
by srowe
Dragos has just posted an update

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... ts/1530322

I've been working on trying to get a ROM image that also adds the disk commands of PET BASIC4. Made some progress this weekend but not quite there yet.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:52 pm
by eslapion
What's the news here ?

The boards were supposedly sent for fab back in march... nothing since.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:52 pm
by dragos
updates have been done via the kickstarter.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92448698@ ... 8169620942

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:12 am
by eslapion
Good quality gold plated boards, very nice looking packaging material.

Nice product!

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:21 am
by vicist
Great looking product and packaging....

but your photos suggest that you still haven't addressed the error I pointed out here:

where your instructions to SYS45056 are wrong (should be SYS45065) - although one screenshot does show the use of SYS45056+9 to invoke the card.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:28 am
by ral-clan
Dragos asked me to fix this error on the instruction sheet a few months ago. The photo on the Flickr page is old and does not reflect the corrected version.

Re: VIC 1112 IEEE Interface

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:38 am
by vicist
I will now give it 10/10 - Excellent!! :D