Date : Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:16:33 +0100
From : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: ROM upgrades on the cheap
Hi.
You just connect pin 27 of IC101 to pin 27 of IC100 instead of the R/W
signal. You still need to make the cut to isolate it of course.
Mark.
> I am hoping somebody has already done this, so I can pick your brains
> instead of poring over the circuit diagram armed with datasheets...
>
> With reference to:
> http://www.retroclinic.com/acorn/swr/swr.htm
>
> I am not that interested in SRAM, but the ability to have IC100 and
> IC101 take up to four ROM images in a larger EPROM.
> Obviously pin 27 of IC101 will need to be altered as the RAM write
> strobe is not relevant. Pin 27 should go to the ROM select latch, yes?
> But where? That's the question!
>
>
>
> The hoped-for eventual idea is:
>
> .------. .------. .------. .------. .------.
> | | | | | | | | | |
> | | | | | | |4 ROM | |4 ROM |
> | MOS | |BASIC | | DNFS | |IMAGES| |IMAGES|
> | | | | | | | HERE | | HERE |
> | | | | | | | | | |
> '------' '------' '------' '------' '------'
> IC51 IC52 IC88 IC100 IC101