On 01/04/2013 10:27 AM, john s wolter wrote: > It's the clock, just the clock. It's a square wave usually, the old up > and down. Pin 19, CLK, on the Intel 8086 DIP > > When emulating the speed of a 8088, 8086, 80286,... CPUs you need to > emulate the Clock cycles > > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_...etc... > > So sticking in NOPs may not work. > > -_nopnopnop-_nopnopnop-_nopnopnop-_...etc > > ...the Clock cycles are still too short. You want... > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_...of the correct cycle length, > ..the infamous buss instruction T-state lengths are what this is about. > > You need to emulate at the CPU buss T-state level. > Hi John, What I had to do was to write a routine that would work with pretty much any PC as it was. If I remember correctly (this was 15 or 20 years ago and I don't have the code in front of me), I had to send a signal to the encoder, wait for a certain minimum number of microseconds, then read the output register. I used an EXTERN int that specified the number of CPU cycles to wait. This was initialized when the program that was using the digital encoder started. All the operator had to do was to run a test program that tried different numbers of wait cycles until it stopped getting garbage from the encoder. That gave the number of wait cycles for that PC. This was in the good old days when users would actually calibrate their equipment rather than the other way round.
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