;; Modified Topo soft loader ;; ;; Multi-colour bars in the border, aka "Spanish" style Spectrum variant loader. ;; ;; This loader uses standard Spectrum ROM timings. In fact it is essentially a CPC version of the ;; Spectrum ROM loader itself. ;; ;; ;; Loader form on cassette: ;; Pilot tone (min 256 pulses) ;; Sync pulse ;; 1 byte sync byte (on spectrum 0 for header and &ff for data) ;; n bytes of data (defined by DE register) ;; 1 byte parity checksum ;; ;; Original had the following bugs: ;; 1. bit 7 of R register had to be 1, otherwise it could change ram/rom configuration while loading ;; 2. flags were not returned, so you didn't know if the data was read incorrectly or not ;; ;; It also had extra code that was unnecessary: ;; 1. turning cassette motor on/off was complex, when in previous instructions they had turned it on anyway. ;; 2. code for changing border colour presumably on a read error. but didn't seem to be used. ;; ;; ;; Entry conditions: ;; ;; IX = start ;; DE = length (D must not be &ff) ;; A = sync byte expected ;; ;; Interrupts must be disabled ;; ;; Exit Conditions: ;; Alternative register set is corrupted. ;; ;; carry clear - load ok ;; carry set, zero set - time up ;; carry set, zero reset - if esc pressed ;; ;; Use 2CDT to write Spectrum ROM blocks to a CDT. Note that at this time it will only write a sync byte of &ff. topoload: inc d ;; reset the zero flag (D cannot hold &ff) ex af,af' ;; A register holds sync byte. dec d ;; restore D exx ;; we need B' to be so we can write to gate-array i/o port for colour change when loading ld bc,&7f00+&10 ;; Gate-Array + border out (c),c ;; select pen index to change while loading (&10 is border) ld c,&54 ;; set to black out (c),c exx ld bc,&f40e ;; select AY register 14 (for reading keyboard) out (c),c ld bc,&f600+&c0+&10 ;; "AY write register" and enable tape motor out (c),c ld c,&10 ;; "AY inactive" and enable tape motor (register is latched into AY) out (c),c ld bc,&f792 ;; set PPI port A to read (so we can read keyboard data) out (c),c ;; this will also write 0 to port C and port A on CPC. ld bc,&f600+&40+&10+&8 ;; tape motor enable, "AY read register", select keyboard row 8 ;; (keys on this row: z, caps lock, a, tab, q, esc, 2, 1) ;; we are only interested in ESC out (c),c ;; make an initial read of cassette input ld a,&f5 ;; PPI port B in a,(&00) ;; read port (tape read etc) and &80 ;; isolate tape read data ld c,a cp a ;; set the zero flag l8107: ret nz ;; returns if esc key is pressed (was RET NZ) l8108: call l817b jr nc,l8107 ;; the wait is meant to be almost one second ld hl,&415 l8110: djnz l8110 dec hl ld a,h or l jr nz,l8110 ;; continue if only two edges are found within this allowed time period call l8177 jr nc,l8107 ;; only accept leader signal l811c: ld b,&9c call l8177 jr nc,l8107 ld a,&b9 cp b jr nc,l8108 inc h jr nz,l811c ;; on/off parts of sync pulse l812b: ld b,&c9 call l817b jr nc,l8107 ld a,b cp &d1 jr nc,l812b l8137: call l817b ret nc ld h,&00 ;; parity matching byte (checksum) ld b,&b0 ;; timing constant for flag byte and data jr l815d l8145: ex af,af' ;; fetch the flags jr nz,l814d ;; jump if we are handling first byte ;; L = data byte read from cassette ;; store to RAM ld (ix+&00),l jr l8157 l814d: rr c ;; keep carry in safe place ;; NOTE: Bit 7 is cassette read previous state ;; We need to do a right shift so that cassette read moves into bit 6, ;; our stored carry then goes into bit 7 xor l ;; check sync byte is as we expect ret nz ld a,c ;; restore carry flag now rla ;; bit 7 goes into carry restoring it, bit 6 goes back to bit 7 to restore tape input value ld c,a inc de ;; increase counter to compensate for it's decrease jr l8159 l8157: inc ix ;; increase destination l8159: dec de ;; decrease counter ex af,af' ;; save the flags ld b,&b2 ;; timing constant l815d: ld l,&01 ;; marker bit (defines number of bits to read, and finally becomes value read) l815f: call l8177 ret nc ld a,&c3 ;; compare the length against approx 2,400T states, resetting the carry flag for a '0' and setting it for a '1