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Clearer wording for the firmware check

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Colin Leroy-Mira 2023-09-10 22:34:03 +02:00 committed by Oliver Schmidt
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libsrc/apple2/ser/a2.ssc.s
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@ -133,18 +133,26 @@ ParityTable:
.byte $A0 ; SER_PAR_MARK
.byte $E0 ; SER_PAR_SPACE
; (*): The first byte we'll check at offset 0 is
; expected to be a BIT instruction on any Apple2
; machine with an ACIA 6551, including the //c
; and //c+.
; Check five bytes at known positions on the
; slot's firmware to make sure this is an SSC
; (or Apple //c comm port) firmware that drives
; an ACIA 6551 chip.
;
; The SSC firmware and the Apple //c(+) comm
; port firmware all begin with a BIT instruction.
; The IIgs, on the other hand, has a
; Zilog Z8530 chip and its firmware starts with
; a SEP instruction. We don't want to load this
; driver on the IIgs' serial port.
; driver on the IIgs' serial port. We'll
; differentiate the firmware on this byte.
;
; The next four bytes we check are the Pascal
; Firmware Protocol Bytes that identify a
; serial card.
; serial card. Those are the same bytes for
; SSC firmwares, Apple //c firmwares and IIgs
; Zilog Z8530 firmwares - which is the reason
; we have to check for the firmware's first
; instruction too.
IdOfsTable:
.byte $00 ; First instruction