Re: [stella] Re:7800 anyone?

Subject: Re: [stella] Re:7800 anyone?
From: vgs <vgstore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:55:01 -0300

Chad Schell wrote:

> There is no need to program an eprom, it can all be done in software
> manipulation.  In fact, you don't even need to own an eprom programmer, as
> most of the software will run fine without the programmer attached.
>
> Chad
>
> At 09:55 PM 1/14/2001, you wrote:
> >I'm not sure I totally follow you. Are you saying you could burn it to an
> >EPROM and then redump it to bin format to convert it. Or do you have a
> >program that handles a straight (sort of) conversion?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mitch
> >Msorman@xxxxxxx
> >http://atari7800.atari.org
> >
> >gamer@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > > Those aren't Intel hex files, but rather Motorola S-records, a method of
> > >  storing binary files in ascii format.
> > >
> > >  If you do a search on hotbot for Motorola S-records, you'll come up with
> > >  some information on the file format, and some links to unix code for
> > >  dealing with them.
> > >
> > >  Otherwise most eprom programmer utilities can read S-records and convert
> > >  them to binary files.  (My particular one required me to strip out all of
> > >  the leading spaces contained in these files, as well as the non-S lines,
> > >  but I'm sure others are more robust.)
> > >
> > >  However, even after converting them to .bin files, it's obvious a lot of
> > >  work needs to be done.  They span address space from 0x4000 to 0x7BFFF,
> > >  with lots of garbage in there, probably something with bankswitching/cart
> > >  RAM but I'll leave that for people more familiar with 7800 cart
> > >  details.  You can compare his Ace of Aces to the version floating around
> >to
> > >  see what I mean.
> > >
> > >  Chad
> >
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will the superdupercharger work on 7800's?


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