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• "Commodore Amiga A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual" - Section 4 - PC Bridgeboard (p.109ff) contains a fairly complete technical overview of the A2088T/A2088XT/A2286 bridgeboard card: - section 4.1: description of PC/XT emulator for Amiga 2000 (p. 109-120): complete memory listing of the PC/Amiga memory interface: p. 109: interface memory map p. 110f: PC memory and I/O map, Amiga memory map p. 111f: AT memory and I/O map, Amiga memory map p. 112ff: PC/AT I/O register map p. 115ff: Amiga i/O memory map, PC-side/Amiga-side interrupt status register p. 119f: Block diagram of the bridgeboard card - section 4.2: BIOS entry points (p. 121-130): complete description of the BIOS entry points with input/output registers - section 4.3: Janus-Library (p. 131-158): complete description of the public functions of the Janus.Library and complete listing of the C include files section 5 - Amiga Hard Disk/SCSI Controller is about the A2090(A) harddisk controller. Maybe are you interested in this section, too ? (Link to "Commodore Amiga A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual") • There is the driver software "AT Utilities" written by Thomas Dreibholz as replacement for the original Commodore's Janus software. It was open-sourced under GPL 2 in 2000 and are downloadable from Aminet with its sourcecode. Maybe it is useful for the bridgeboard card's special features (memory map and registers) ? I cite from the author's website (link): "1992 – 1997: The ATUtilities Project A replacement for the Commodore Amiga 2086/2286/2386 Bridgeboard driver software. It is the result of a reverse engineering of the original drivers in order to overcome their limitations. The system is written in C, with some hardware-near parts in Assembler. This software has been shareware and is now Open Source." Links: -ATUtilities 4.0os - A replacement for Commodore's Bridgebaord software -ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CBM PC/AT Bridgeboard drivers - Now *Open Source*! Last edited by Kitchen2010; 13 July 2015 at 21:44. |
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It looks like it can be implemented quite easily after all. EDIT: Very odd protocol... Driver tells the Amiga RAM address of command block to Z80 code by poking the address byte by byte to board's register. Driver writes command block to Amiga memory, then writes to another register that tells Z80 code to execute the command. The rest is done by Z80 code completely transparently, it even uses on-board DMA controller automatically to transfer data to/from Amiga memory. Amiga-side code only needs to wait for interrupt. EDIT2: Done. Last edited by Toni Wilen; 16 July 2015 at 15:32. |
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I have just found out that the Amiga driver of MESS does already emulate the Zorro interface with some expansion cards (Github link).
The emulated expansion cards are: • A2052 (2MB Fast RAM expansion for the Zorro II slot) Link to Amiga Hardware Database • A2232 (Serial port expansion for the Zorro II slot) Link to Amiga Hardware Database • A590 (SCSI/XT-IDE/ST-506 HD controller expansion for the Zorro II slot) Link to Amiga Hardware Database • Action Replay (A500 version) Link to Amiga Hardware Database • Buddha (IDE controller) Link to Amiga Hardware Database Is the sourcecode of these expansion cards of some interest for you, Toni ? |
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Most of examples you listed are not even fully implemented. (DMAC more or less does nothing, WD33C93 emulation is very basic, none of Amiga drivers would work with it and so on) |
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Some emulators for Atari ST and Macintosh emulation just have the ROMs on their boards.
Once you have the ROMs dumped and you have found out the memory mapping, you should get them running easily. Namely these emulation cards: Atari ST emulators: • Maxon Chamäleon: Atari ST emulator that runs Amiga OS and TOS exclusively (= not parallel) and does NOT emulate the Atari hardware registers and the Atari MIDI interface. This should be first implemented, as it is the simpliest Atari ST emulator. Link to Amiga Hardware Database • MacroSystem Medusa: There are 2 hardware versions. v1 supports only emulation of Atari ST/STE and supplies a Atari STE ROM port. v2 supports 32-bit ROMs and adds Atari TT emulation and higher display frequencies with ECS chipset. Both have no emulation of the Atari MIDI interface. Link to Amiga Hardware Database • ML-Computer Amtari: Atari ST/STE/TT emulator which requires MMU (68020 + 68851 or 68030) and Kickstart 2.04+. It maps serial and parallel ports to the Amiga side. Link to Amiga Hardware Database Apple Macintosh emulators: • ReadySoft A-Max & A-Max II: WinUAE already emulates them (at least partly?). Link to Amiga Hardware Database • ReadySoft A-Max II Plus & IV: The expansion card has 2 supporting Macintosh IC chips for 2 serial ports: a printer port and a modem/MIDI port. The 2 chips make it harder to emulate. Link to Amiga Hardware Database • Emplant: The expansion board has several supporting Macintosh IC chips for the serial ports. There are several add-ons available for this board: an autobooting SCSI controller (NCR 53C80), Sybil - a hardware frequency synchronizer to handle 800 kB Mac floppy disks, e586 module for PC emulation. All these chips make it hard to emulate. But once you got the A-Max IV hardware running, this should be easier to emulate (they share same supporting Macintosh IC chips). Link to Amiga Hardware Database Last edited by Kitchen2010; 14 August 2015 at 14:53. Reason: Moved from thread 'WinUAE 3.2.0 beta series' |
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I have assembled a list of all graphics expansion cards that are listed at the Amiga Hardware Database and The Big Book of Amiga Hardware, sorted for the used GPU processor. So it can be found out easily what emulation core is needed for every graphic board. Maybe Tony can implement easily the graphic boards if there are already the needed emulation cores for their GPUs.
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I have already found some emulation cores for the missing graphic cards:
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I think the Video Toaster is missing from your list. |
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I do not know if the Video Toaster really counts as a (framebuffer) graphic card. It has too many video grabber functions and Tony has already said that he has not interest in reverse engineering custom video hardware. That is why I tried to collect graphic expansions with off-the-shelf chipsets which might have some documentation somewhere helping to implement an emulation.
But if someone is willing to do all the work of reverse engineering, it would be sure be welcome ! |
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