Re: VICE real cart support

Yes, sure, simple things will work - but indeed, what's the point then, all of 
them have (or can be) dumped.

Am Montag, 28. September 2020, 16:59:30 CEST schrieb David Roberts:
> It depends what is in the C64 cartridge.
> 
> http://blog.worldofjani.com/?p=879
> 
> For example, if the contents of the C64 cartridge is just ROM, static RAM
> or ROM+ static RAM then using VICE with a dedicated interface port should
> work fine in my opinion - albeit the speed will be dictated by the hist
> computer upon which VICE is running. In my experience, this may be faster
> than a real C64 (under defined conditions of course).
> 
> If the cartridge contains bespoke hardware that is timing critical, then I
> agree that this solution will be destined to fail. But it would be
> interesting to find out how many cartridges this would (in fact) preclude...
> 
> One question does remain however, if the cartridge ROM is available - and
> could be read for use with VICE, and the plan is to use VICE fir the
> emulation and user interface, I can’t actually see what benefit you would
> get from the proposed solution.
> 
> Just trying to think through the use case.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 14:14, <groepaz_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 28. September 2020, 13:11:52 CEST schrieb Scott Hutter:
> > > I was wondering if it would be possible to interface a real C64
> > > cartridge port to VICE.  Certainly there would need to be a custom
> > > built interface to make the connections and handle the signal lines.
> > > Feasible?  Or would VICE be too slow for the proper timing?
> > 
> > this will never work, except with dedicated hardware - ie your own
> > complete
> > computer - that can guarantee the right timing in all circumstances.
> > 
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> > 
> > Fortschritt ist wie eine Horde Schweine. Beides hat viel Gutes, aber man
> > darf
> > sich nicht wundern, dass alles voller Scheisse ist.


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