[sebhc] H8/H17 emulator available to prelim. trials

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at dunfield.com>
>
>
>>Hi Dave
>> It seems like they did an auto baud but I'm not sure.
>>Dwight
>
>Hi Dwight,
>
>that occuired to me - I do recall reading somewhere that an configured
>disk auto-bauds, however this "should" with my emulated serial port (it
>will of course lock onto the first baudrate that it tries).
>
>IIRC, it was supposed to autobaud on a SPACE character - I tried typing
>LOTS of spaces --- no dice.. Hopefully Steven or someone else imtimately
>familier with the Heath systems will be able to tell me exactly what it's
>doing ...

It might be that it is waiting for delays before running the disk.
Does your emulator run the 2ms interrupt? If not, this
might be a problem. It could also be that it is looking to see
if there is a disk in the drive by waiting for index holes.
This again is related to the timer interrupts.
Dwight


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