Tag Archives: IECHost

IECHost DIY kits soon to be up for sale!

Posted on August 10, 2017 by

Today I received the PCBs for revision 1.1 of IECHost that I plan to make available to generic users and not just to beta testers. They are quite smaller than the ones for revision 1.0 and rather simple to solder … Continue reading →

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IECHost update

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

To my surprise all the IECHost prototypes I planned to make available to beta testers are now gone. I am leaving a couple of revision 1.0 PCBs in my possession, along with a fully built prototype, for reference. Based on … Continue reading →

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IECHost PCB prototype

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

I got a chance to build one IECHost device late yesterday so here’s a picture of the result: Apart for the USB part it pretty much looks like a circuit from the 80s and shall surely blend in well in … Continue reading →

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IECHost PCBs

Posted on July 25, 2017 by

IECHost PCBs arrived safely! They look quite odd at first sight, but if you pay attention to signal lines at the bottom (as in the picture below) and the pattern of components on the top side, it makes much more … Continue reading →

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IECHost boards shipped

Posted on July 8, 2017 by

The printed circuit boards for IECHost I had ordered a few days back were manufactured and shipped today. Yay! Stay tuned for more news on the subject 🙂

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Codebase64 on the Kernal behaviour

Posted on June 27, 2017 by

I found out that codebase64 mentions the issue I reported about reading the error channel/status info from devices that are not on the IEC bus. The author of the article refers to the issue as a deadlock. An interesting thing … Continue reading →

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Kernal “patch” in the IECHost firmware

Posted on June 25, 2017 by

This evening I was contemplating the idea of adding a “disk certification” option in IECHost, as per Inside Commodore DOS – program on page 91, which uses direct access programming, including job execution. I was admiring how beautifully error checking is … Continue reading →

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