Re: VIC-20 "all games in one" cartridge update

From: Marko Mäkelä (msmakela_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2001-04-01 14:11:39

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniele Gratteri wrote:

> Also, isn't possible to make the cartridge can act like a normal memory
> expansion, selectable with switches or jumpers?

Yes.  The 32k RAM can be mapped to all memory blocks ($0400-$0fff,
$2000-$7fff and $a000-$bfff).  There are no mechanic switches, but if you
hold down stop, 3 or 8 during reset (or press one of these keys in the
menu program), the computer will enter BASIC with 0, 3 or 24 kilobytes of
expansion memory.

> A question: what kind of games will be memorized into the Flash EPROM?
> All the cartiridges images ever released?

The Flash ROM is in-system programmable, so you can select the games
yourself.  I'll probably make a special version of prlink with which the
ROM image can be transferred.  All cartridge games a bit less than 1
megabyte.  All machine-language games and cartridges are about 1.5
megabytes when compressed to a ROM image.  You could add some BASIC games
to fill the entire ROM.

	Marko

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