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by Go4Retro
Tue May 12, 2026 9:58 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: XRoar 1.11 released
Replies: 12
Views: 2396

Re: XRoar 1.11 released

I ask for grace on the code quality of my contribution. To assist Pere in testing code on his Dragon with the MMU, I quickly converted the Verilog to C to get the patch going. Once Pere and John prove out the correctness of the HW implementation, I will work to clean up the code.

Jim
by Go4Retro
Sat Apr 04, 2026 1:05 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon MMU solutions ...
Replies: 9
Views: 6876

Re: Dragon MMU solutions ...

OK, don't bite me... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSV9pZwTCZp1znalJSEY0smTu5m1WvSgWehv29hd6jRWGaI8VGxhoWdUfvuli40WYeqLR4oHaX4lL6X/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true Hehe. A few notes on CoCoMEM Jr: Full specifications and technical info not available, but video memory access is problemmat...
by Go4Retro
Fri Apr 03, 2026 4:59 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon MMU solutions ...
Replies: 9
Views: 6876

Re: Dragon MMU solutions ...

For your spreadsheet: CoCoMEM Jr replicates the CC3 MMU (8kB pages, multiple tasks, optional common memory at $fexx, etc.) It currently sits in the CPU socket The HW design supports 14 bits of MMU address extension (128MB of linear address space) with 2 "special" bits reserved for memory protection,...
by Go4Retro
Wed Apr 01, 2026 5:24 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon MMU solutions ...
Replies: 9
Views: 6876

Re: Dragon MMU solutions ...

I think Jim Brain (Go4Retro on here) said his project does interface to video, but I can't remember how. Maybe interposes the SAM as well as the CPU. My effort is a work in progress, but it currently creates a "hole" in the address space for pages 38-3f and passes memory requests to those memory lo...
by Go4Retro
Wed Apr 01, 2026 5:13 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon MMU solutions ...
Replies: 9
Views: 6876

Re: Dragon MMU solutions ...

Hi all! There was much talk of MMUs at this year's Meetup (a particularly good one I thought this year!), so I was wondering if someone might take a stab at summarising the different options in a way that even simple people like me could understand. I'm happy to see the interest. The options I can ...
by Go4Retro
Tue Mar 24, 2026 11:59 pm
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Dragon 64 repair
Replies: 53
Views: 45506

Re: Dragon 64 repair

Wow, you weren't kidding. That was hard to read (up to the 1989 articles, but have not waded through them yet.
by Go4Retro
Tue Mar 24, 2026 12:26 am
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Dragon 64 repair
Replies: 53
Views: 45506

Re: Dragon 64 repair

Is there a handy link to the respective articles and any errata available? I ask because I have a CoCo1/2/Dragon MMU solution that replicates the CC3 MMU config, and running OS9L2 on it is I think the true test of how well it works. Pere's asked to test a unit, but since there's prior art on this, m...
by Go4Retro
Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Dragon 200E Lower Case Daughterboard ROM question
Replies: 42
Views: 612333

Re: Dragon 200E Lower Case Daughterboard ROM question

~MS & ~FS are supposed to be connected together on the D64 motherboard. The schematics had a problem whereby the original was creased right where that connection was. On my lower case board, and probably as per the 200E board, ~MS on the 6847 is connected to the socket, whilst ~FS is connected to ~...
by Go4Retro
Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:55 am
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Dragon 200E Lower Case Daughterboard ROM question
Replies: 42
Views: 612333

Re: Dragon 200E Lower Case Daughterboard ROM question

On the original lowercase PCB, pin 37 of the header (FS) is not connected to anything. You can see this here: Screenshot 2024-11-20 224806.png This is the original PCB photos superimposed, the bottom reversed, and the top is set to 50% opacity. Pin 37 on the header is the 4th from the right top. Not...