RC6502 Apple 1 SBC unresponsiveness
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Pressing the reset key on the sbc will bring up a "/", nothing happens to keyboard input, it seems to freeze.
Press the reset button on the arduino nano, "RC6502 Apple 1 Replica" will appear
The RC6502 Apple 1 Replica message is from the Nano, and that just indicates that the Nano is talking to the PC and thinks it's talking to the SBC. Resetting that is entirely independent of resetting the SBC.
The \ prompt is from the SBC; that's how WozMon says that you can start typing input. So if you're seeing that, you know that the Nano is reading the "screen" output from the SBC. If typing doesn't echo the characters you've typed (or a new prompt if you hit Return or Esc), it could be that your typing is not getting to the Nano, but more likely there's a problem with the connection between the Nano and the SBC's keyboard circuitry.
I've replaced a few sets of chips and the situation is still the same, it doesn't seem to be a chip problem. Can anyone tell me what to do?
I guess the next step might be to put a 'scope or logic probe on the "keyboard" outputs from the Nano to the PIA and make sure it's toggling those lines when you type at the console?
At the moment I found out that the cause is a bug caused by corrupted SRAM.