Re: Super Serial Support in Emulator (How to use it???)

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Robert L. Doerr" <rdoerr@bizserve.com> wrote in message
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> > > The software that controls it is FORTH.  I expect that much of the
> > > underlying drivers and interpreter are written in assembly.  No source
> > > has been uncovered for it.  If I can find an emulator that supports
> >
> I don't believe this particular disk is in either DOS or PRODOS
> format.  It
> is a variant of FORTH and has its own built-in utility for managing
> the disks.
> If perhaps the section of code could be isolated that talks to the
> Serial port is it likely that it could be patched?  Either that or it
> might point to a simple enhancement to an existing emulator to allow
> it to work as well.


                I did a quick google search on forth and read one guys bio
saying
               he ported forth from dos3.3 to prodos.



> I'm not sure how it looks for the SuperSerial board.  Was there a
> common function call to the OS to identify it or did it have to check
> memory for a signature?

          You just search the slot roms looking for the
          byte signature of the SSC card.


> When I match the slot up in the Kegs or Apple Oasis the program at
> least
> thinks it sees a SuperSerial card.  Whatever signature it looks for is
> in those two emulators.  When I match up the slot in AppleWin it ends
> up crashing the emulated Apple session so something during the
> detection does something bad.
>
> > I don't think kegs32 will work for you. Assuming the the TOPO
communicated
> > at the hardware level of the SSC ACIA.
> > The //gs and hence kegs emulation is of the SCC chip from Zilog.

            the //gs (kegs) will provide support for the higher level
functions of the SSC rom
           IN # PR # CNTRL x, xx for baud and whatnot. Most programs though
           communicated directly with the SSC acia chip and that won't work
on the //gs
           unless you physically install a SSC card in the machine and set
the control
           panel to your card. Not an option with kegs.


> I have disk images of the program I am trying to run.  TOPOSOFT 1.01

       Send me a copy of the image so I can look at it.
       I haven't done dos3.3 in ages though and will have to
       refresh on the physical layout.

I'll have to download applewin and take a look at it. Since the author is
posting here
it would seem you might have a good chance of getting it going with that
emulator.

Laine...