With ARNITECH_BLADE the screen editor, the keyboard matrix scan, and the VIC-II
set-up are left out, and devices 3 and 0 are the Terminal Card the Arnitech
controller finds by its type, $04. CHROUT writes each byte to its Output, or
to its Literal while quote or insert mode is on, keeping QTSW and INSRT as the
screen editor does. CHRIN marks where input starts, echoes the keys typed, and
on RETURN has the Card take the logical line under the cursor and reads it
back. SCNKEY moves the Card's keys into the keyboard buffer up to XMAX, UDTIM
sets STKEY from its RUN/STOP, SCREEN answers 80x25, PLOT moves and reads its
cursor, and CINT resets it and puts the native-mode vectors in place. With no
Terminal Card, bytes printed go nowhere and no key comes.
A Blade reads the 65816's native-mode vectors from the RAM under the KERNAL
at $FFE4-$FFEF. native_vectors_init puts handlers' addresses there: IRQ and
NMI save A, X, and Y at full width, the direct page, and the data bank, push
the frame an emulation-mode interrupt makes, and run the KERNAL's handlers
through CINV and NMINV in 8-bit native mode, whose RTI comes back to restore
everything. BRK, COP, and ABORT go to the BRK handler, which on a Blade first
sets the direct page and data bank to 0 and returns to emulation mode.
Version 2 of the Arnitech jump table, with 6 entries: whole Ethernet frames
through the CS8900A at the RR-Net socket (arnitech's ADR 0027), found by its
Product ID and polled, from the CS8900A datasheet's PacketPage registers and
its 8-bit mode. NET_INIT resets the chip and turns on receiving its own and
broadcast frames and sending; NET_MAC copies the Individual Address; NET_SEND
bids and writes a frame; NET_RECV copies the oldest frame received, or drops
one longer than the buffer with Skip_1. Carry is the result, with an error
code in A, and the pointer and count go in SAL and EAL.
A new option, ARNITECH_CONTROLLER, on in the mc64 configuration only.
IOINIT starts timer A with CIA #1's TOD on 50 Hz, the mc64's mains, and
if the Arnitech controller's signature "ARNI" is at $DE80, latches its
clock and copies its real time into the TOD, hours first and tenths
last, flipping bit 7 of an hour of 12 first, since the CIA flips it
back when 12 is written. Without the signature the TOD is left alone.
The Arnitech jump table at $FF00: "ARNI", version $01, two entries, and
JMPs from $FF06: $FF06 finds the first Card slot holding a Card of the
type in A (carry clear, the slot in A, its Card window's low byte in
X; carry set if none or no controller), $FF09 sets the TOD as IOINIT
does. $FF48-$FF80 stay clear. The code is in new files under
src/kernal/arnitech; other configurations build as before.
chris