Hardware that isn't emulated yet (but should be)

[tom-seddon]

• 6502 second processor (anything non-6502 is out of scope, at least currently)
• Serial port (to/from file/clipboard/socket/etc.)
• Parallel port (ditto)
• Joysticks
• Speech
• 8271
• Other types of FDC?
• Hard drive
• Master Compact
• Olivetti Prodest PC 128S (in theory, mostly the same as Master Compact)
• ROM mappers (InterWord, Quest Paint, Master ROM, etc.)
• Tapes
• Mouse (I think the Watford and AMX ones work the same way? Is the Compact mouse the same kind of thing?)
• Turbo 6502 second processor (see https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11366)

[lurkio]

Tape?

[tom-seddon]

Master Compact

[lurkio]

Lack of 8271 emulation possibly causing issues for a user:

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=308534#p308534

[tom-seddon]

Olivetti Prodest PC 128S - see #187 - same as Master Compact?

[nelgin]

Any news when serial support will be added? Beeb-Em has it but only on the Windows build. Would like to see if on the B2. There's a few things I'd like to experiment with.

[tom-seddon]

6502 second processor support will be in the next release.

[tom-seddon]

@nelgin What sort of things are you thinking of? I've been thinking about bumping serial support further up the priority list, as I've got a project in mind myself and it's a bit easier to debug stuff with an emulator.

I'm currently thinking a byte stream over a socket would be enough for my purposes. I'd be planning on doing file/clipboard support as well, as (famous last words...) it doesn't feel like it would be too much extra work.

[nelgin]

@tom-seddon I was thinking of using tcpser along with an emulated serial port, rather than using the computer's hardware serial port since many don't have them these days anyway, which would enable connections to the outside world.

[tom-seddon]

Joystick support will be in the next release

[PeterBBCUser]

Hope tape support will also come soon :)

[kgl2001]

For ROM mappers, have a look at what's been implemented in MAME:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/bus/bbc/rom/pal.cpp

[tom-seddon]

Electron?

Can't decide about this. It's not got the BBC branding and the terracotta function keys - so maybe it's out of scope?

But, equally, it's got the 6502, and the MOS interface, and it's at least trying to be a BBC. So maybe I should.

[tom-seddon]

Parallel printer will be in the next release.

Data is stored in a buffer, and you can copy it to clipboard as text (assuming text output only, no ESC commands) or save it to a file for use with a converter of some kind.

[DavidCWGA]

I know it's already on the list but I just wanted to cast an extra vote for tape. Back in the day they used to broadcast software over radio or sometimes even TV and it would be great to see if recordings still work.

[tom-seddon]

I hope to have Master Compact/Olivetti PC 128S largely sorted out in time for the next release. This won't include mouse emulation (yet! Sorry... mouse is still on the list), but it'll have EEPROM support for *CONFIGURE, and the digital joystick interface.

[tom-seddon]

Next on the list after that: probably tape (by popular vote! Also some overlap with serial port support, which I'd still like to do) - but possibly hard disk, as that would be useful (though not super high priority) for testing some BeebLink stuff.

Whichever happens first, the other will follow.