dtvwiki

The DTV includes several features which extend the capabilities of the original Commodore C64.

DTV Hardware features

• see front page or Wikipedia article

Articles on DTV Features

• Blitting Benchmarks between the DMA, the Blitter, the burst mode and classic C64 blitting methods
• TODO: Playing 8 bits audio sample using DTV SID additional registers
• TODO: Implementing stable symmetric overscan
• TODO: Display a 16 colors picture in FRED mode

Programming Documentation

For DTV1

• DTV Registers Full - the definitive reference by Jeri Ellsworth herself.

For DTV2/DTV3

• DTV2/3 Programming guide - the definitive reference, originally written by Jeri Ellsworth herself.
  • DTV FRED Mode description
  • DTV FRED Mode 2 description
  • DTV2 Kernal disassembly - including explanations of the DTV2/3 flash file system and user port bits
  • DTV Flash File System links and ideas
• DTV2/3 Reference Schematic (PDF)
• Segment Mapper Tutorial, revC (PDF) Explores techniques for accessing extended RAM & ROM. (by gmoon)

General C64 Docs

• All About Your 64 - opcodes, memory maps, chip specifications, commented ROM listings, nicely interlinked.
• The MOS 6567/6569 video controller (VIC-II) and its application in the Commodore 64 by Christian Bauer
• Docs (mirrored) by Fairlight
  • Commodore 64 input/output Assignments
  • Commodore 64 memory map
  • Commodore 64 Ram addresses
  • Commodore 64 Rom addresses

Programming Tools

6510 Assemblers

• Turbo Assembler with native support of DTV opcodes
• Turbo Macro Pro - Assembler for 6510/DTV originating from the Omikron Turbo Assembler series
• DTVMON - DTV specific machine language monitor originating in HesMon and CCSMON

6510 Cross-Assemblers

• Kick Assembler - a novel cross-assembler for 6502/6510/DTV. Java. No source available.
• xa and dxa - xa assembler and dxa disassembler written in portable C. GPL. DTV support pending.
• Dasm - a 6502 cross-assembler written in portable C. Source included. No DTV support. Last update in 2004.
• Acme, TAss, CA65, C64Asm
• 6502 Cross-Development Languages and Tools List - BIG list of cross-dev tools, compiled by Daniel Fandrich
• World of Fairlight - Fairlight’s Tools, everything plus the kitchen sink

IDE (PC)

• Relaunch64
• Any good text editor with syntax highlighting and Run command line capabilities (to call the cross-assembler)

Other Programming Languages

• cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools. No specific DTV support as of June 2007.
• DTVBASIC - A BASIC extension for the DTV, by Grokk. Includes RAMdisk and DMA support.

C64DTV Emulators

• VICEplus features C64DTV emulation.

Other tools

• VSFReanimator converts a VICE snapshot (.vsf) to a .prg file that can be started on the DTV.

65xx Documentation

• 6502.org - a resource for people interested in building hardware or writing software for the 6502 microprocessor and its relatives