Re: BMVIEW - updated !

From David Michel <xxxxxx@easynet.fr>
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>I just thought I'd drop a note, telling the list that I've fixed the bugs
>in the BMVIEW program, and made some minor changes to the layout of the
>code.

    Cool!

>And now I have a quick question for the list - does anyone know for
>certain, what is the sequence of writes which enables the Backup RAM, and
>what disables it ?

    To enable the RAM it's:

	lda   #$80
        sta   $1807

    And to disable it it's:

        lda   $1803

    And apparently a 'csl' is also needed when accessing the Backup RAM,
    it must be a slow RAM or something like that.

>I seem to recall that enabling is succesive writes to $1407 - 3 specific
>bytes, I think ?

    Hmm strange, that sounds familiar, I already heard of this 3 bytes
    sequence, but I can't remember where...

    The code above is what they use in the System Card.

>I am asking, because I have been playing with my Develo box lately, and
>found that reading segment $F7 yields only a series of bytes equivalent to
>the MSB of the address lines...

    Very interesting!

>(I wonder if I can format a Develo-style MX file to download to the
>machine, to unlock the RAM...)

    Should be easy. :)

    David