Re: [hatari-devel] LED with empty floppy drives

[David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 04/05/2014 22:03, David Savinkoff a écrit :
> 
> > I looked at the schematics and the M51017AP data sheet.
> > It appears that the LED is turned on by simply selecting
> > pin  5 -- Drive 0 Select and/or pin  6 -- Drive 1 Select
> > Thus, this is a TOS BUG.
> > Furthermore, all that Hatari needs to do is turn the LED
> > on or off for the respective floppy drive by checking
> > IO-A1 and IO-A2 on the YM2149 to select the floppy
> > drives.
> >
> 
> This is already how it's done in Hatari since some times. See calls to 
> Statusbar_SetFloppyLed in psg.c around lines 335
> 
> > You should be able to turn the drive LEDs on and off
> > individually by writing to the YM2149.
> >
> > With this information, someone Will (if they haven't already)
> > write a program to flash the floppy drive LEDs. Hatari must
> > be able to emulate this...---... ...---...
> 
> This was made loooonnng time ago, see for example the "Little Color 
> Demo" by Tex in 1987 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14034 (only 
> drive A is flashing in this case)
> 
OK. No problem for Hatari. Good.