Re: VIC-20 "smart" expansion port idea

The Vic had such a short life, I don't think much was made for it... It
was released Christmas of 80, C64 was exactly 2 years later. It was then
discounted for a year or two, then gone.

-Pete


> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:00:38PM -0600, Jim Brain wrote:
>>I have two versions of my expansion.  VIC-MIDI (512k/128k) and UltiMem
>>(8M/1M)  I have not put UltiMem in the store yet.
>
> It is also in the VICE Subversion repository since r30371. I also ported
> most of the Vic Flash Plugin software to it, and I plan to release that
> on my home page as soon as I can test it on the real hardware.
>
> A planned follow-up development is a rudimentary flash file system, so
> that you can use the 8MiB or 512KiB flash as mass storage, in case you
> prefer a barebones system with the minimum amount of cables. The file
> system probably will not support proper deleting or save-and-replace,
> but it would support subdirectories. (We can mark files deleted by
> clearing some bit. If you want to reclaim space, you have to erase the
> whole file system.)
>
> The current software allows you to create and write an image that
> contains directories of program files or ROM images. I created a test
> image with some 5 megabytes of Vic-20 software. Unlike in the Vic Flash
> Plugin (which was never mass-produced), the image is in uncompressed
> format, and ROM images are always aligned on 8KiB pages, so that a 4KiB
> ROM would occupy 8KiB. The benefit is that they can be launched
> instantaneously, without any copying.
>
> So far, nobody seemed to answer my question about Vic-20 cartridges that
> use I/O2 or I/O3. I know only one such cartridge: the tape fastloader
> Vic Rabbit maps 4KiB of ROM there. But is there anything that maps
> hardware to I/O2 or I/O3? Any EPROM burner? Relay controller?  Anything
> done and distributed in a smaller scale by some third party? Or were
> most peripherals for the user port and the IEC bus?
>
> 	Marko
>
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