Subject: Re: [stella] Game developers input wanted for 7800 Ram Cart From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:37:07 -0700 |
So probably the best thing would be to somehow persuade you to do it. Have you seen the Megacart thread? It is a discussion that happened in 1998, and it begins here: http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199804/msg00073.html It's a very interesting design and it looks like it would be pretty easy to implement. A variation that would take half as many registers and allow access to twice as much memory would be to make the banks 2K instead of 1K which is a possibility that was discussed in the thread. I don't think anybody has acutally written games that need this much capability yet, but having something along these lines available might be a *good thing*. And since games don't yet exist, you're free to implement things the way you like. John Chad Schell wrote: > I won't do anything to stop people from developing their own bankswitching > formats for the cart, but I think the major limiting factor will be the > fact that most people will not have access to the required Place and Route > and bitstream generation tools for Xilinx FPGAs. > > Chad > > At 12:48 AM 4/12/2003, you wrote: > >Chad, > > > >You mention on your web page that the device will be upgradeable to support > >additional bankswitching schemes. Will it be possible for end users to > >experiment with alternative bankswitch schemes that don't currently exist? > >This might be helpful to ambitious homebrewers designing new carts. > > > >John > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- > >Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > >Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > > ============================================ > Chad Schell > http://www.schells.com/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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