Native C128 port about geckos-v2 HOT 6 CLOSED

What would be a good setup for the C128?

One could connect a second keyboard - but how? - and use two monitors to create a two-user system.

1MHz or 2MHz? 2MHz would only allow the 80 column screen.

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At the current state of development, the loader senses the main screen used when booting from basic, and uses an own ROM image for 40 or 80 columns. The main (only) difference is where the init process sends it main output to and which device is used for the lsh main shell.

In addition, during device initialization, the 2MHz flag is used to indicate if either 40 or 80 col screen is used. The console devices for each type of screen detect this and ignore the keyboard input. This way active keyboard input only goes to the screen that is active during boot. Unfortunately this disables switching consoles on the other screen.

2 MHz are not yet supported due to #91 . 2 MHz would only be available with 80 col screen, and if this is enabled, the VIC-II console device could probably be removed from the 80 col ROM.

A second keyboard is not supported, as most people wouldn't have one. And, frankly, I hove not found a "standard" way of connecting one, resp. where someone else has already done this. So this will be left out for the foreseeable future.

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At the current state in the master branch, you can "make runc128" for a 40 column VICE-based system, or "make runc128f" for an 80 column VICE-based system, for testing.

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Native C128 port seems to be working now:

• if started with 40 col screen, running in 1MHz mode, and vdc as output only device
• if started with 80 col screen, running in 2MHz mode, with vdc as main console and no vic video device
• IEC works with 1541 and 1571 in both 1 MHz and 2 MHz modes (it switches to 1 MHz during IEC traffic, even though the 1571 can handle the C128 with 2 MHz as well)

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Tests on real hardware still to be done.
(and docs, esp. link from front page)

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Successfully tested on the real machine!

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