So I finally caught a pulse, on the same pin. They were just happening quickly and irregularly and so catching on the scope was tough.
Archive - 2006
working on the floppy interface
Well I’m now inline with a data tap, so I have access to all 25 pins on the floppy interface between the amiga and the floppy drive. I used to attach to the DB23 on the pass-thru port of the floppy drive, but I...
Commands A and B implemented and working
Ok. I got two commands A and B implemented and working. Command B from the PC instructs the SX to enable interrupts, and get ready to receive a track into fram. This command will eventually be expanded to actually...
USB uart send and receive
Good news, good news. After banging my head on the same problem for the last three hours, I’ve finally made some more progress. Using option #2 from the previous post, I’ve written two non-isr based software...
writing merged USB comm code
Now that I have USB receive working in the main PC code, its time to merge the USB transmit(and receive for commands) into the main SX code. I have two pseudo-code versions written. 1> First version uses the ISR to...
merging USB receive
Well, I’ve managed to merge the USB receive portion into the main program that reads and processes tracks. This means I no longer need an external program to receive the data, to write it to a file, to read the...
new book
I recently received “On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore” and have read about half of the book so far. Very interesting read. It’s fun to read about how the various Commodores...
proof of concept works
Today is the first day in months that I’ve made what I consider good progress. I am now able to read any track(so far) off of any disk with 100% success including checking and relying on the checksums. I read...
first two bytes of checksum bad
Despite the data being received 100% correct, the data checksum fails in certain cases. It’s always the first two bytes of the 4-byte, 32-bit checksum that are wrong. The last two are always right. What does...
