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More SCAT chipset machines
This patch adds machines using Chips&Technologies SCAT chipset.
1. GW-286CT GEAR
Uses Chips&Technologies BIOS. The BIOS is available [Moderator : Please don't post links to copyrighted material]. 2. Samsung SPC-4216P
Successor of Samsung SPC-4200P. The BIOS is attached this post.
1. GW-286CT GEAR
Uses Chips&Technologies BIOS. The BIOS is available [Moderator : Please don't post links to copyrighted material]. 2. Samsung SPC-4216P
Successor of Samsung SPC-4200P. The BIOS is attached this post.
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I've posted patch file only. If you need BIOS ROM image file for testing, please send PM for me.
Edit : This patch has been incorporated here.
Edit : This patch has been incorporated here.
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Re: More SCAT chipset machines
This patch adds KMX C 02 machine using 386sx CPU and Chips&Technologies 82C836(SCATsx) chipset that is successor of 82C235. Experimental 82C836 chipset emulation is also implemented in this patch and two more machines that uses 82C235 chipset is also included in this patch that is submitted but not applied in recent revision.
If you need BIOS ROM image file for testing, please send your e-mail address as PM for me.
Edit : This patch has been incorporated here.
If you need BIOS ROM image file for testing, please send your e-mail address as PM for me.
Edit : This patch has been incorporated here.
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Sorry for being nitpicky here, but the correct name has hyphens KMX-C-02
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¡Hello!
Thanks for these new emulated SCAT machines, they're great additions.
It would be interesting to have a 386-SX with SCAT EMS support to compare the performance and features offered by these chipsets vs. EMM386/QEMM/386MAX. If i recall correctly, the EMM emulation provided by these utilities uses the 32 bit capabilities provided by 386 CPU, but since the SX variants had 16 bit bus,It took two clock cicles to execute one 32 bits instruction.
So for these systems, the EMS memory provided by the chipset was faster than the emulated.
The only drawback was some 386 games required VCPI fuctions avaiable only when the CPU is V86 mode with some EMS emulation software.
Sorry if it is a bit off topic. But is possible to add EMS support to NEAT machines?. The emulated AMI BIOS 286 and DTK-386 SX clone, both, have a NEAT chipset.
I know they uses a different EMS driver, but i don't how different are NEAT and SCAT chipset for instance.
¡Thanks!
Thanks for these new emulated SCAT machines, they're great additions.
It would be interesting to have a 386-SX with SCAT EMS support to compare the performance and features offered by these chipsets vs. EMM386/QEMM/386MAX. If i recall correctly, the EMM emulation provided by these utilities uses the 32 bit capabilities provided by 386 CPU, but since the SX variants had 16 bit bus,It took two clock cicles to execute one 32 bits instruction.
So for these systems, the EMS memory provided by the chipset was faster than the emulated.
The only drawback was some 386 games required VCPI fuctions avaiable only when the CPU is V86 mode with some EMS emulation software.
Sorry if it is a bit off topic. But is possible to add EMS support to NEAT machines?. The emulated AMI BIOS 286 and DTK-386 SX clone, both, have a NEAT chipset.
I know they uses a different EMS driver, but i don't how different are NEAT and SCAT chipset for instance.
¡Thanks!
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I've just modified model name as you pointed out and re-uploaded patch file.omarsis81 wrote:Sorry for being nitpicky here, but the correct name has hyphens KMX-C-02
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According to technical document, implementing EMS support to NEAT machines is somewhat easier than SCAT machines but I don't have machine that uses NEAT chipset so I can't confirm its behavior. Only highly experimental implementation is possible at this time like EMS implementation of Laser XT series did.Fenix77 wrote:¡Hello!
Sorry if it is a bit off topic. But is possible to add EMS support to NEAT machines?. The emulated AMI BIOS 286 and DTK-386 SX clone, both, have a NEAT chipset.
I know they uses a different EMS driver, but i don't how different are NEAT and SCAT chipset for instance.
¡Thanks!
And behavior and approach of the NEAT chipset and the SCAT chipset are completely different.
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This patch adds three machines mentioned below that previously posted before but not applied. Reworked against rev 872.
- GW-286CT GEAR(286)
- Samsung SPC-4216P(286)
- KMX-C-02 (386sx)
- GW-286CT GEAR(286)
- Samsung SPC-4216P(286)
- KMX-C-02 (386sx)
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I'm having trouble with the Samsung and KMX systems - the Samsung just hangs before initialising the video card, the KMX just beeps. Any suggestions?
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The KMX-C-02 BIOS that can be downloaded by Internet search is broken. Please let me know your e-mail address via PM and I will send you a correct BIOS file.SarahWalker wrote:I'm having trouble with the Samsung and KMX systems - the Samsung just hangs before initialising the video card, the KMX just beeps. Any suggestions?
And please let me know your configuration when testing Samsung SPC-4216P.
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All committed at rev 881.
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hello.
First of all i want say i'm grateful to the effort you have done when yo added the support to theese SCAT chipsets.
It's interesting to test this emulated hardware because nowadays te real SCAT/NEAT/LEAP chipset are very rare.
And well, i'd like to ask about some emulated chipsets. I do not know if its a bios problem, a problem with the configuration or the way my SVN PCEM was compiled
* The GW-286CT GEAR works flawessly. And even count the XMS memory only once.
* The Award 286 work great too, but it has a minor glitch,it checks the XMS memory five times. Ohter than that has no problems.
* The Samsung SPC-4200P and 4216P both of the them have a problem when testing the XMS memory after configuring the EMS memory in the BIOS, they detect the remaining XMS wrong or directly as 0kb of XMS avaiable.
(also the 4200p only support 2MB of RAM and 4216p supports up to 5MB. 5MB is enought for any 286 systems however.)
* The KMX-C-02 works and load the EMM.SYS driver and even detects correctly as a SACTsx chipset, and the 128kb UMB memory is correctly detected by QRAM
But it does not support the Large Page Frame (No mapeable area found) and Word for Windows 1.1 (Which i installed in Win 2.11) looks up after i run Winword.exe.
PD: I used the same hard disk with the SCAT EMS driver and QRAM with all the SCAT machines. i do not know what the "Coprossesor READY cntrl by" do the possible values are 387SX and 82C836 (the SCAT chipset)
Thanks in advance!
First of all i want say i'm grateful to the effort you have done when yo added the support to theese SCAT chipsets.
It's interesting to test this emulated hardware because nowadays te real SCAT/NEAT/LEAP chipset are very rare.
And well, i'd like to ask about some emulated chipsets. I do not know if its a bios problem, a problem with the configuration or the way my SVN PCEM was compiled
* The GW-286CT GEAR works flawessly. And even count the XMS memory only once.
* The Award 286 work great too, but it has a minor glitch,it checks the XMS memory five times. Ohter than that has no problems.
* The Samsung SPC-4200P and 4216P both of the them have a problem when testing the XMS memory after configuring the EMS memory in the BIOS, they detect the remaining XMS wrong or directly as 0kb of XMS avaiable.
(also the 4200p only support 2MB of RAM and 4216p supports up to 5MB. 5MB is enought for any 286 systems however.)
* The KMX-C-02 works and load the EMM.SYS driver and even detects correctly as a SACTsx chipset, and the 128kb UMB memory is correctly detected by QRAM
But it does not support the Large Page Frame (No mapeable area found) and Word for Windows 1.1 (Which i installed in Win 2.11) looks up after i run Winword.exe.
PD: I used the same hard disk with the SCAT EMS driver and QRAM with all the SCAT machines. i do not know what the "Coprossesor READY cntrl by" do the possible values are 387SX and 82C836 (the SCAT chipset)
Thanks in advance!
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Re: More SCAT chipset machines
You may set improper EMS memory configuration. On SPC-4200P/SPC-4216P, valid EMS memory configuations according to RAM setting are as follows.Fenix77 wrote: * The Samsung SPC-4200P and 4216P both of the them have a problem when testing the XMS memory after configuring the EMS memory in the BIOS, they detect the remaining XMS wrong or directly as 0kb of XMS avaiable.
(also the 4200p only support 2MB of RAM and 4216p supports up to 5MB. 5MB is enought for any 286 systems however.)
1MB - 384KB
2MB - 512KB, 768KB, 1024KB
3MB - 1024KB, 2048KB
5MB - 1024KB, 2048KB, 3072KB, 4096KB
4MB RAM configuration is not properly supported by SPC-4216P BIOS. In this case, it works like 3MB RAM configuration.
Unlike the 82C235 chipset, the 82C836 chipset can map D000~EFFF segment area only. And I added STACKS=9,512 in CONFIG.SYS file, Word for Windows 1.1 works properly on Windows 2.11/3.0.Fenix77 wrote: * The KMX-C-02 works and load the EMM.SYS driver and even detects correctly as a SACTsx chipset, and the 128kb UMB memory is correctly detected by QRAM
But it does not support the Large Page Frame (No mapeable area found) and Word for Windows 1.1 (Which i installed in Win 2.11) looks up after i run Winword.exe.
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This patch fixes typo and removes io_sethandler that was used when debugging.
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Committed at rev 894.
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Out of curiosity, I saw in the commit that the Samsung SPC-4216P can use a file called phoenix.bin as well as (instead of?) the split roms. What was that file for, exactly? Sorry if this seems like a trivial question.
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The phoenix.bin was dumped by MS-DOS DEBUG and splited ROM files was independently dumped by ROM reader. But those are acually same.darksabre76 wrote:Out of curiosity, I saw in the commit that the Samsung SPC-4216P can use a file called phoenix.bin as well as (instead of?) the split roms. What was that file for, exactly? Sorry if this seems like a trivial question.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm guessing that the phoenix.bin could then just be reconstructed odd/even from the other 2? Thanks for your patches, by the way, nice to see so many machines get their day
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This patch does the following.
- Improved ROMCS mapping on top address area.
- Changed SCAT chipset revision.
- DMA wait control state register is now writable.
- Improved ROMCS mapping on top address area.
- Changed SCAT chipset revision.
- DMA wait control state register is now writable.
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Committed at rev 1009.
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This patch does the following.
- Implemented ROMCS enable feature.
- Fixed RAM write protect register setting wasn't properly applied.
- Implemented Encoded RAS mode emulation on 82C235 revision A and 82C386 chipset.
- Implemented of experimental memory bank interleaved addressing emulation on 82C836 chipset and removed hardcoded memory configuration setting. KMX-C-02's BIOS now automatically detects DRAM configuration and set DRAM configuration register value correctly.
- Improved accuracy of 82C235 chipset's memory bank addressing. GW-286CT GEAR BIOS now set DRAM configuration register correctly when Dynamic Memory Resizing is enabled.
- Changed Award286 clone and Samsung SPC-4200P's chipset revision to rev A.
- SCAT revision D chipset now set high ROM mapping size to 128KB.
Please note if you want to use more than 8MB of memory on Award286 clone after applying this patch, you will need to use modified BIOS to support Encoded RAS configuration. If you want to get modified BIOS, please PM for me(Old modified BIOS that can get this forum doesn't work properly after this patch is applied when you set memory size more than 6MB). And machines using the SCAT chipset may not boot if they use memory settings that aren't supported by the chipset.
Valid and usable memory configuration for each model are shown below.
Award 286 clone
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 4096KB, 6144KB, 8192KB, 10240KB, 12288KB, 14336KB, 16384KB (Last 4 configurations need modified BIOS that supports Encoded RAS mode.)
GW-286CT GEAR
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 2560KB, 3072KB, 4096KB, 4608KB, 5120KB, 6144KB, 6656KB, 8192KB, 10240KB, 12288KB, 14336KB, 16384KB
Samsung SPC-4200P
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB
Samsung SPC-4216P
1MB, 2MB, 3MB, 5MB
KMX-C-02
512KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 2560KB, 3072KB, 4096KB, 4608KB, 5120KB, 6144KB, 6656KB, 8192KB, 9216KB, 10240KB, 16384KB (7168KB, 11264KB, 12288KB, 13312KB, 14336KB configurations are also valid on 82C836 chipset but these configurations need modified BIOS that supports Encoded RAS mode.)
- Implemented ROMCS enable feature.
- Fixed RAM write protect register setting wasn't properly applied.
- Implemented Encoded RAS mode emulation on 82C235 revision A and 82C386 chipset.
- Implemented of experimental memory bank interleaved addressing emulation on 82C836 chipset and removed hardcoded memory configuration setting. KMX-C-02's BIOS now automatically detects DRAM configuration and set DRAM configuration register value correctly.
- Improved accuracy of 82C235 chipset's memory bank addressing. GW-286CT GEAR BIOS now set DRAM configuration register correctly when Dynamic Memory Resizing is enabled.
- Changed Award286 clone and Samsung SPC-4200P's chipset revision to rev A.
- SCAT revision D chipset now set high ROM mapping size to 128KB.
Please note if you want to use more than 8MB of memory on Award286 clone after applying this patch, you will need to use modified BIOS to support Encoded RAS configuration. If you want to get modified BIOS, please PM for me(Old modified BIOS that can get this forum doesn't work properly after this patch is applied when you set memory size more than 6MB). And machines using the SCAT chipset may not boot if they use memory settings that aren't supported by the chipset.
Valid and usable memory configuration for each model are shown below.
Award 286 clone
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 4096KB, 6144KB, 8192KB, 10240KB, 12288KB, 14336KB, 16384KB (Last 4 configurations need modified BIOS that supports Encoded RAS mode.)
GW-286CT GEAR
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 2560KB, 3072KB, 4096KB, 4608KB, 5120KB, 6144KB, 6656KB, 8192KB, 10240KB, 12288KB, 14336KB, 16384KB
Samsung SPC-4200P
512KB, 640KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB
Samsung SPC-4216P
1MB, 2MB, 3MB, 5MB
KMX-C-02
512KB, 1024KB, 1536KB, 2048KB, 2560KB, 3072KB, 4096KB, 4608KB, 5120KB, 6144KB, 6656KB, 8192KB, 9216KB, 10240KB, 16384KB (7168KB, 11264KB, 12288KB, 13312KB, 14336KB configurations are also valid on 82C836 chipset but these configurations need modified BIOS that supports Encoded RAS mode.)
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Re: More SCAT chipset machines
Merged at rev 1194.
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This patch adds two more machines using Chips&Technologies SCAT chipset. All needed patches are inclided.
If you need BIOS ROM image file for testing, please send your e-mail address as PM for me.
1. Goldstar(Predecessor of LG) GDC-212M
One of famous Korean 286 machine. 2. Samsung SPC-4620P
Successor of Samsung SPC-4216P. Has integrated ATI Korean VGA.
If you need BIOS ROM image file for testing, please send your e-mail address as PM for me.
1. Goldstar(Predecessor of LG) GDC-212M
One of famous Korean 286 machine. 2. Samsung SPC-4620P
Successor of Samsung SPC-4216P. Has integrated ATI Korean VGA.
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Committed at revs 1524 and 1525.
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This patch implements processor clock control on SCAT chipset.
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Hmm, this patch feels like it needs some rework to me. I don't like the level of over-engineering in cpu_set_nonturbo_divider(); there's not really a need for the level of bounds checking (who's passing values > 16384 anyway?), and I don't like the use of a magic number for 2/3 (which isn't even supported by the SCAT). I don't see that there's any need for this to be more than :
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if (divider == 1)
cpu_set_turbo(1);
else
{
cpu_nonturbo_speed = cpu_turbo_speed / divider;
cpu_set_turbo(0);
}
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Your code should be enough for SCAT chipset but I've applies minor change. I think below code is better. However, in the future, it may be necessary to add or change the same function in other chipsets(ex. 2/3 multiplier may need to work with Commodore 286 series).SarahWalker wrote: ↑Tue 14 Jul, 2020 5:28 pm Hmm, this patch feels like it needs some rework to me. I don't like the level of over-engineering in cpu_set_nonturbo_divider(); there's not really a need for the level of bounds checking (who's passing values > 16384 anyway?), and I don't like the use of a magic number for 2/3 (which isn't even supported by the SCAT). I don't see that there's any need for this to be more than :Code: Select all
if (divider == 1) cpu_set_turbo(1); else { cpu_nonturbo_speed = cpu_turbo_speed / divider; cpu_set_turbo(0); }
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if (divider < 2)
cpu_set_turbo(1);
else
{
cpu_nonturbo_speed = cpu_turbo_speed / divider;
cpu_set_turbo(0);
}
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Re: More SCAT chipset machines
Committed based on the above at d5dbe302.