Re: VIC-20 Cartridge combinations

Den Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:08:38 -0600 skrev Terry Raymond
<traymond20@gmail.com>:
> Hi Mia,
> 
> You mentioned some other ML cartridge, is there any existing snapshot
> image of that VIC20 ML Cartridge.
> 
> I do have the HesMon cartridge but I believe it only supports the
> unexpanded memory, the ML cartridge you mention does it support
> expanded Memory?

Check out Vicmon here:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/roms/tools/4k/index.html

AFAIK the $6000/BLK3 version is what were sold commercially as a
cartridge (atleast by Handic/Datatronic in Sweden).

However an article in a magazine (maybe even Handic/Datatronics own
VIC-News/VIC-Nytt/VIC-Rapport magazine) had clear instructions on how
to use the relocate feature of vic-mon to relocate vic-mon itself.
Officially the instruction were for those who were developing software
for $6000/BLK3 but unofficially it was to make it possible to take
tape/disk copies of the monitor even without having ram cartridge at
$6000/BLK3.

I guess that the non-$6000/BLK3 versions were relocated by some user
before being uploaded to Zimmers/funet. (Especially the $4000/BLK2
version has a far newer timestamp than the other versions).

There is als some "Monitor-sys24576.prg" file there. I don't know
anything about it, maybe it's another copy of vic-mon.

My impression is that vic-mon were a Commodore product that
Handic/Datatronic just made their own copys of, but Handic/Datatronic
had their own in-house software developement so it might be something
they developed themself.

P.S. there seems to be some real assemblers also. Haven't tried any of
them either.
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/roms/tools/8k/index.html


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