home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!mtus5!jjmcwill
- Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
- Date: Saturday, 12 Sep 1992 12:23:53 EST
- From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92256.122353JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd PIA
- Distribution: world
- References: <15064@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Lines: 39
-
- Reading your first post forced me to dig up my schematics and check this out.
- Pretty nifty, I concur with you said.
- But it seems to me, all you need to do to add the second 74138 is pull up
- G2B' and tie it to A7. Also tie A7 to G1 on the second 74138.
- G2A' on the second PIA can be tied to G2A' on the first, G2B' on the second
- needs to be tied to ground.
-
- Charles Hughes approached the PIA upgrade a little differently,
- taking CS2' from the 74ls138, and running that to the enable line of
- a 2 to 4 decoder. Then the outputs could be run to 4 PIA chips, which
- cut $D300 into 4 blocks, one block for each PIA.
-
- The easiest way to make a bulletproof driver for the PIA to printer port
- mod would be to modify the P: driver in the OS ROM. This would require needing
- a EPROM burner of course, but then the printer port would even work with
- PrintSHOP and stuff.
-
- Another way to approach the modification, if you have lots of different
- OS chips you use, like the Ultraspeed OS, and other 800XL operating systems,
- is to build a Parallel Bus type card instead. You need a lot of TLL chips,
- and still need to BURN a ROM chip which contains the Printer driver, but
- it would work.
-
- I would really be interested in a 6551 upgrade, and someone to write
- the R: driver for it. I managed to get documentation for a 16550,
- which is a really fancy RS232 chip. This chip can buffer up to 16 bytes
- of incoming data internally, which means it would make it easier
- to push the 8 bit to faster modem speeds. If anyone is seriously interested
- in this, I can provide a copy of the docs upon request.
-
- Regarding Hard Drives, Bob Woolley is currently working on an IDE
- hard drive, hooking it up to his 8 bit. I think implementing IDE
- is easier than SCSI or something.
-
-
- Jeff McWilliams ----> jjmcwill@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu
- jjmcwill@mtus5.mtu.edu jjmcwill@mtus5.mtu.edu.BITNET
- cd827@cleveland.freenet.edu
- cd827%cleveland.freenet.edu@cunyvm
-