Cubit KIM Bus for AIM 65 products

Cubit catalogue
Control Universal Limited Rockwell Acorn brochure
Cubit 6516 Eprom Programmer

Cubit 6516 Eprom Programmer


Cubit 6516 Eprom Programmer

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Cubit 6516 Eprom Programmer


Cubit 6516 Eprom Programmer

New scans of KIM-1 manuals

I found new high quality scans of KIM-1 manuals on the Retro Commodore website.
That website is filled with high quality scans of Commodore publications.

High quality scans of the User, Programming, Hardware manuals. Also scans of KIM-5 related manuals like Assembler and Editor (a new one for me!).

The originals are from a German distributor, there is a sticker on the frontpage.

I thank Carsten Jensen for his invaluable work!

Manuals are added also to the KIM-1 manuals page, which did get a cleanup too.

Superjolt and TIM 6530

I have acquired 3! Superjolts. With a Synertek Superjolt CP110 manual and Tiny Basic + RAP (assembler) in ROM.

A good opportunity to update the 6530 and the Jolt SuperJolt pages. Better quality and more documents, more photos, ROMs dumped.

THE-RC 41523 CPU-4

CPU-4 is a 6502 SBC based upon the TIM 6530-004. Developed for teaching on the Technical University Eindhoven.
The only surviving part of the system is a 40 page Dutch manual.
Described are the function of TIM, Tiny Basic and Resident Assembler Program, same as the Jolt and Superjolt.

Dutch manual of RC41523 CPU-4

Some excerpts from the manual:







Known 6530 variants and ROM dumps

6530-002 ROM at $1C00 dump of ROM
$1C00-$1FFF KIM-1 listing in KIM-1 Users manual
6530-003 ROM at $1800 dump of ROM
$1800-$1BFF KIM-1 listing in KIM-1 Users manual
On the 6530-002 and -003 PB6 is CS1. PB5 is a normal I/O pin.

6530-004 ROM at $7000 dump of ROM
$7000-$73FF TIM Terminal Monitor, see the TIM page
On the TIM 65330-004 PB6 is CS1 and PB5 is CS2.

6530-005 or R3005-12, no ROM dump
According to this OSI appnote this is an unprogrammed version of the 6530 TIM.
The text in the appnote says:
The 6530-005 is an unprogrammed version of the TIM-1. It has 16 parallel lines as the 6820 but also has a 64 word RAM and a programmable interval timer which can generate an IRQ. The 6530-005 is available from MOS Technology at a cost slightly higher then that of a 6820 PIA.
(note that there are 14 I/O lines as on the TIM and 64 bytes RAM, not words).
I have only seen ads for this part without further description of what this is. And I have several real 6530-005IC’s in my stock

6530-006 ROM at $1800 Allied Leisure pinball version 1 (IC6)
6530-007 ROM at 1C00 Allied Leisure pinball version 1 (IC3)
6530-008 ROM at $1400 Allied Leisure pinball version 1 (IC5)

Version 2/3 of Allied Leisure Pinball
6530-009 or R0008-11 IC5 ROM at $1400 dump of ROM
6530-010 or R0006-11 IC6 ROM at $1800 dump of ROM
6530-011 or R0007-11 IC3 ROM at $1C00 dump of ROM

6530P R3004-11 ROM dump, probably also a pinball machine part.

R3014-3 System 1 Sound board

6530-012 Gottlieb System 1 sound board (R3014-12)
6530-013 Gottlieb System 1 sound board (R3014-13)

6530-014 Gottlieb System 80 series sound board (R3016-11)
6530-016 Used in Gottlieb system 80/80A/80B sound boards

6530-024 ROM at $8C00 dump of ROM
Commodore Chessmate (based upon Peter Jenning’s MicroChess)

6530-241 MIOT in pinball machines
6530-243 MIOT in pinball machines

Commodore diskdrives ROM at $FC00-$FFFF

901466-01 6530-??? 2040 DOS 1.0 Shugart SA390 2040, 3040 and 4040
901466-02 6530-028 4040 DOS 1.2 Shugart SA390 2040, 3040 and 4040
901466-04 6530-034 8050 DOS 2.0 DOS 2.1 Shugart SA390

901483-02 6530-036 8050 DOS 2.5
901483-03 6530-038 8050 DOS 2.5 Micropolis 1006-II (8050)
901483-04 6530-039 8050 DOS 2.5 Tandon TM100-3M (8050)
901884-01 6530-040 8X50 DOS 2.7 Tandon TM100-3M (8050) Tandon TM100-4M (8250)
901885-01 6530-044 8X50 DOS 2.7 Micropolis ???
901885-04 6530-047 8X50 DOS 2.7 Micropolis 1006-II (8050) Micropolis 1006-IV (8250) Micropolis 1106-II (Safari, 8050) Micropolis 1106-IV (Safari, 8250)
901869-01 6530-048 DOS 2.7 M.P.I. 101SM (8050)M.P.I. 102?? (8250)
251256-02 6530-050 8250 DOS 2.7 Matsushita JU-570-2 (8250LP)

Most of the information on this pages is also found on the pages of Martin Hoffman Vetter

RIOT 653X datasheets

On this page:

  1. 6530 datasheets
  2. 6532 datasheets
  3. GS65C32 datasheets
  4. Other 65XX RIOT datasheets
  5. Datasheets 6530

    The 6530 was produced by most licensed 6502 manufacturers, from MOS Technology/Commodore SG to Rockwell and Synertek. All production datasheets that I have seen are identical

    The oldest one is a preliminary MOS datasheet for the MCS6530, missing the ordering pages of the production version.
    The most complete datasheet of the 6530 are the Synertek and Rockwell versiona, first in next table.

    Synertek sy6530
    Rockwell r6530 RRIOT
    MOS Technology MCS6530 Memory IO Timer Array
    Preliminary Data Sheet 1975
    MOS Technology MCS6530 Memory IO Timer Array
    Preliminary Data Sheet 1975-08
    MOS Technology MCS6530 Memory IO Timer Array
    Preliminary Data Sheet 1975
    Commodore 6530 6520 datasheet
    Commodore 6530 datasheet
    MOS 6530 datasheet
    > Commodore MOS 6530 datasheet
    MOS6530

    6532

    MOS 6532 RIOT Preliminary feb 1977
    Commodore MOS 6532 RIOT
    Commodore MOS 6532 RIOT
    Rockwell R6532
    Rockwell R6532
    6532 timer interrupt precautions
    6532 timer interrupt precautions
    Rockwell R6532 RAM IO Internal Timer Device (RIOT)
    synertek sy6532

    CMOS 6532

    The 6532 exists in CMOS variants, I have only seen the California Micro Devices GTE 65SC32 variant.

    Synertek 65C32 preliminary
    GTE G65SC32
    CMD G65SC32
    GTE G65SC32

    Other RIOTs

    In Rockwell databooks there are more RIOTs described. 6531, 6534. Never seen in the wild, a mention here and there of being used in pinball machines.
    The timer/counter is a lot more capable, 16 bits etc.

    R6531 ROM-RAM-I/O-Counter (RRIOC)
    R6531 ROM-RAM-I/O-Counter (RRIOC)
    R6531 ROM-RAM-I/O-Counter (RRIOC)
    Rockwell R6534 ROM-IO-Counter (RIOC)

V1.3.7 KIM-1 Simulator

New version of the KIM-1 Simulator. Now version 1.3.5. 3 oktober, and now 9 oktober 1.3.7!

– text file upload in console also accepts UNIX style line endings and DOS type
– Debugger more visible in main form, and new menu with Search, Fill, Move/copy in memory
– added PRG Commodore binary file load and save (for the IEC users!)
– debugged and tested the VT100 codes of the console

Download at the usual place!

Patches to Microsoft Basic K-1008-2L MTU

Added to the MTU pages:Patches to Microsoft Basic K-1008-2L sources and binaries, ready to run!

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K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC

Patches to Microsoft Basic K-1008-2L sources, binaries and demos

This package was distributed as a manual and a cassette with some binaries. The user is supposed to type in and adapt the sources himself.

K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC manual, cleaned up

The original sources of the Basic patches, the Basic demonstration program and the parallel keyboard routine are typed in by me in october 2023.

Assembler and binary versions of the Patches
Download here the assembler sources and binary versions of the K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC
In this archive:
The manual: K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC cleaned.pdf
Folders with running software typed in and assembled:
– vmbas kim1 tty lowercase: tested version of the patches to be used with the KIM-1 keyboard. Adapted for KB-9 V1.1, real lowercae characterset. see the readme.txt how to use, KB-9 included.
– vmbas Basic demo: tested with vmbas kim1 tty lowercase

Additional:
– vmbas original: original source in modern assembler format. to be used with a parallel keyboard routine
– vmbas parallel keyboard: addon to use a parallel keyboard connected to the free RRIOT port

The running software has been tested with the K-1008 emulation in the KIM-1 Simulator.



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MTU Commodore PET products

MTU produced also a number of products for the Commodore PET.

The K-1008 Visible Memory, original for the KIM-1, was also adapted to be used on the Commodore PET.
Same specifications, 320×200 bit mapped graphics, with a PET interface.

K-1008-6 Visible Memory board for the PET

Disk 1 of MTU K-1008-6 software.
Disk 2 of MTU K-1008-6 software.


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