Re: [stella] RAM Cart?

Subject: Re: [stella] RAM Cart?
From: Ruffin Bailey <rufbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:22:37 -0500
At 05:00 PM 1/15/99 +0100, you wrote:
>The only differences between the Supercharger and a burned EPROM
>are that the SC BIOS leaves the VCS RAM in a defined state and
>that accessing the 'hot spot' at $FFF8/$FFF9 in any way will trigger
>the SC bankswitching and might therefore crash the game. For a newly
>written game it shouldn't be a problem to avoid these two bytes though.

Hey, that's great!  So if I write a 4k game that ignores $FFF8 and $FFF9
completely, it'll run no problem on my unmodified Supercharger?  I guess I
should have figured that out myself, but I haven't visited VCS-land in
quite some time now.

Thanks for the insight Eckhard,

Ruffin Bailey
http://members.aol.com/mactari

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