VGA Serial Terminal Kit for RC2014 Designed by Marco Maccaferri

[Laszlo Szolnoki]

Hello,
can someone give me a hint how to set up Marco's Propeller Terminal in a RomWbW environment? What drivers need to be enabled in RCZ80_std.asm? The board itself is functional, Ctrl+F10 works fine, but the screen stays black when booting.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have no clue where I am making the mistake.
Thanks
Laszlo

[Phillip Stevens]

On Thursday, 17 August 2023 Laszlo Szolnoki wrote:

Hello,
can someone give me a hint how to set up Marco's Propeller Terminal in a RomWbW environment? What drivers need to be enabled in RCZ80_std.asm? The board itself is functional, Ctrl+F10 works fine, but the screen stays black when booting.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have no clue where I am making the mistake.

IIRC it is set up to be an ACIA Serial Port, using the standard TX and RX pins. So you will need RomWBW to be configured for ACIA on Port 80.

https://github.com/maccasoft/propeller-vt100-terminal

 

[Phillip Stevens]

On Thursday, 17 August 2023 Laszlo Szolnoki wrote:

Hello,
can someone give me a hint how to set up Marco's Propeller Terminal in a RomWbW environment? What drivers need to be enabled in RCZ80_std.asm? The board itself is functional, Ctrl+F10 works fine, but the screen stays black when booting.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have no clue where I am making the mistake.

 

 On Thursday, 17 August 2023, Phillip Stevens wrote:

IIRC it is set up to be an ACIA Serial Port, using the standard TX and RX pins. So you will need RomWBW to be configured for ACIA on Port 80.

https://github.com/maccasoft/propeller-vt100-terminal

Wrong.

It is just connected via the bus TX and RX pins, so whichever serial card you have will work without configuration. Just need to make sure that RomWBW is set up so that the console I/O is appearing on the TX and RX pins. 

[Steve Cousins]

Depending on the serial module you are using you may have to set jumpers on the serial module to connect the modules TXD and RXD signals to the bus TX and RX pins.

[Laszlo Szolnoki]

Thank you for your feedback. I have fixed the problem. The reason was a mismatch between the configuration and the current hardware.  I cleaned up the configuration and miraculously it worked. An external input is often helpful not to stuck on the own Hamster wheel.

Laszlo