Someone is looking for an Athlon manual

[Al Kossow]

just saw this request on the MAME developers list. someone is looking for:

"AMD Athlon and AMD Duron Processor BIOS, Software, and Debug Developers Guide, order# 21656"

anyone have a paper copy, or know if it's on line somewhere?

 

[pcdosretro]

Try here though they may not have specs up for their older CPUs prior to family 10h - https://developer.amd.com/resources/developer-guides-manuals/

Why the heck does MAME need that anyway ? By and large the arcade games that anyone really cares about run on 8-bit CPUs.

 

[Al Kossow]

Why the heck does MAME need that anyway ?

Mame emulates PCs

 

[pcdosretro]

Mame emulates PCs

That's right, they merged with MESS a few years ago. Does their PC emulation work well ? I remember checking out their Atari 800 emulation and it wasn't very good.

I can't imagine wanting to emulate an Athlon PC (circa 1999) when that software can be generally run directly on a modern PC. Generally people want to emulate classic stuff from the 1980s.

 

[pcdosretro]

This brings up an interesting concern: have you managed to archive the various CPU and chipset docs from Intel and AMD over the years ? I know Intel used to have all of their stuff on their website. Of course they might have removed the older stuff over the years.

 

[Al Kossow]

I have some of it, but not all.
Apparently, this document wasn't generally released.
Odd, since the ones before and after were

 

[pcdosretro]

This may be close to what was requested - https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/26094.PDF

Also check here - https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs

 

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