> > There's one thing I'd like to see. I've developed a new bankswitching
> > method which supports 128KB of ROM and 32K battery backed RAM. But it's
> > a chicken-and-the-egg situation. Game authors can't develop games for it
> > because emulators don't support it. And emulator authors don't support
> > it because no games exist for it.
> >
> > If I provide the specs, could you add this BSing mode to Stella? It would
> > really help get the ball rolling on RAM intensive games.
>
> Send me the specs and I'll see what I can do. It shouldn't be hard
> to add expect for possible the battery backed RAM part. I guess the
> RAM could be written out to another file. Also if you have a
> sample ROM that uses the BS method send it as well.
Cool. This is exactly the way I'd do it...a separate file,
maybe with the name "<gamename>.ram"?
I'll dig up the spec tonight and send a copy your way.
-Chris
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