Chris Wilkson said:
>I hafta be selfish here. I don't own a supercharger, and I loath, detest,
>despise, abhore (point made) the idea of making my 2600 dependent on a PC.
Sorry, I got a little carried away on that brainstorm, but I was just
outlining possibilities.
>Why not do this with a cart? The cost may be more, but it's not huge.
>I can build my Mega Cart for around $20 (granted, no packaging, docs,
>or label). And I would be more than happy to burn (and play ;) ) test carts
>for anyone who asked. I might even make blank loaner carts available to
>developers. And the thing is easy to use! No serial i/o, no waiting for
>new data to load. Just "ask and ye shall receive". Bang! New data.
>
>I really want to see a project like this happen. But the 2600 community is
>small enough without limiting the audience to supercharger capable gamers.
>And using the pc as a drive just flat destroys the spirit of what you're
>doing. I can see maybe using it as a fileserver...one load per game.
>Maybe. But a game should not swap data to/from the pc whie it's running.
>It's just wrong.
Your cart has up to 128K ROM and 16K RAM if I remember correctly, right?
That is enough for a pretty big game. Are you using EEPROMs, and if so,
what sort of burner would I need to test something using your cart?
Testing a program of this type isn't possible on current emulators, and I
couldn't deal with the delays in having someone else do testing (I'm the
type who'll change one instruction, compile and run, repeat until it works.
=) )
At a production cost of $20, the final price would be around $35-40
including an author royalty (more than the $5 of Rescue Bira Bira and
Edtris, I'm sure) and shipping. That isn't too bad if the game world
rivals NES Zelda or Final Fantasy.
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