I have been working on an Atari development system for the past few months,
sort of a simple version of Kevin Horton's Bankzilla. I have not had a
problem with cable length to the Atari cart slot. I use 24 wire ribbon cable
about 10 inches long to connect the 2600 to my circuit. My circuit uses 13
ICs and will load any 2 or 4K file (naturally), any 8K file that uses the
standard $F8, $F9 bankswitching and any 16K file that uses standard $F6, $F7,
$F8, $F9 bankswitching. It also supports the Atari superchip. Actually I
took a super chip out of a cartridge and incorporated it in my circuit. The
binary files are loaded from the parallel port of my PC through a 8255 PPI
chip. Other than the Atari super chip all the components are standard off the
shelf items. It is working pretty well except I get some interference
radiated from the old TV I am using. My next step is to make a permanent
circuit in a metal enclousure to eliminate this interference.
Russ
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