QuickSilver 128
J. Luce
anyone tell me what the dipswitch settings are on the 4-switch DIP? All
I know is that as it now sits, the SFD1001 is seen as Device 8.
Also, there is 1 barnacle underneath and the a wired 'clip' to one of
the pins at the female end of the cartridge port extender. What is that
for and does it affect the 64 or 128 usage?
I also understand that there was software that came with it originally.
Anyone got the disk?
Thanks.
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David Desimone
>I just purchased a used SFD1001 and a Quicksiver 128 IEEE interface. Can
>anyone tell me what the dipswitch settings are on the 4-switch DIP? All
>I know is that as it now sits, the SFD1001 is seen as Device 8.
My information comes from using the IEEE Flash! from Skyles, but there
are many similarities between them.
The first switch is an on/off switch. When the switch is off, the
entire interface board is disabled. You must turn it on to access the
IEEE bus at all. On the C64, this controls whether the new Kernal ROM
is switched in, but the C128 adds its own ROM, so this switch may have
no effect in C128 mode.
The other three switches change which references to drive numbers are
channelled through the serial bus, and which are channelled through the
IEEE bus. Such as:
Switch 2: ON, device 8 is IEEE, OFF, device 8 is SERIAL.
Switch 3: ON, devices 9 and 10 are IEEE, OFF, devices 9 and 10 are SERIAL.
Switch 4: On, device 4 is IEEE, OFF, device 4 is SERIAL. (Printer!)
I may have some of these switches in the wrong order, but a little
experimenting should sort it out. I believe the interface board causes
references above device 12 to ALWAYS be on the IEEE bus, but that
doesn't happen very often anyway.
>Also, there is 1 barnacle underneath and the a wired 'clip' to one of
>the pins at the female end of the cartridge port extender. What is that
>for and does it affect the 64 or 128 usage?
The clip is required in order to swap the internal ROM with the C64 ROM.
It does not affect C128 usage as far as I know, since that ROM is
already in the machine at all times. It also prevents you from easily
unplugging the thing, which is annoying.
>I also understand that there was software that came with it originally.
>Anyone got the disk?
My IEEE Flash! came with no software, just the board and instructions.
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directing the device 8 data flow, either to IEEE bus or serial bus.
The 2nd switch is for device 9 and 10, they are ganged together. The
last switch is for device 4 (for an IEEE printer?).
ctfm
J. Luce
-In article <59...@aurs01.UUCP> lu...@aurw46.UUCP (J. Luce) writes:
->I just purchased a used SFD1001 and a Quicksiver 128 IEEE interface. Can
->Also, there is 1 barnacle underneath and the a wired 'clip' to one of
->the pins at the female end of the cartridge port extender. What is that
->for and does it affect the 64 or 128 usage?
-
-The clip is required in order to swap the internal ROM with the C64 ROM.
-It does not affect C128 usage as far as I know, since that ROM is
-already in the machine at all times. It also prevents you from easily
-unplugging the thing, which is annoying.
-
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Bzzzzz!Timeout! What do you mean by the 'ROM is already in the machine'?
I got no ROM with this (how does one get into the little black box
surrounding the midsection of the QS128?)... do I need to call Sykes? If
so, what's their phone number?
Thanks...
Fuzzy Fox
>Bzzzzz!Timeout! What do you mean by the 'ROM is already in the machine'?
>
>I got no ROM with this (how does one get into the little black box
>surrounding the midsection of the QS128?)... do I need to call Sykes? If
>so, what's their phone number?
As I said, my information is somewhat guesswork, since I don't have the
128 version of this hardware, only the 64 version. I had heard
somewhere that the Quicksilver comes with a ROM which plugs into the
extra ROM socket on the 128. This could be wrong though.
If you plug in your SFD and are able to access it in C128 mode with no
trouble, then by all means, ignore me. :)
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Both products are the same, they both contain a 6522 CIA buss controller,
some other small chip I think, and a IEEE FLASH ROM for the C64, or C128 in
64 mode. If you have the QS128 product, it comes with an extra ROM chip
that plugs into your C128 computer. It does not go into the extra sockette,
but rather replaces the kernal rom that is already in there, so you need to
pull it out and put this new one in.
This new rom allows for the 128 mode to see and use the IEEE buss. The frist
swtich on the unit has no effect at all in C128 mode, and there really is
no way to "disable" the unit, however I have found that in 128 mode there
really is no reason to at all. Unlike FLASH mode of 64, the QS128 driver
software sits WAY-UP in rom memory, way out of the way of anything else that
might be going on in the computers memory
(At least in my expirence)
Switching off the DEVICE 8 and DEVICE 9&10 switches to all serial mode
acutal just like a device disable for 128 mode. It so compatable that
I even think you can still use your cassette drive in 128 mode with the
think active in IEEE mode. (God only knows why anyone would want to?)
The clip has no real pourpose in 128 mode, but it still is a good idea to
install it onto that one pin of the PLA chip. This is so that 64 mode can
maintain its sort-of-compatablity with the IEEE buss rom (FLASH).
I have found ZERO conflits in 128 mode, but, in 64 mode, the IEEE FLASH
has cause a lot of trouble wiith most ternialal software.
ctfm