On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Chris Wilkson wrote:
> Heh...
> #69 on my VCS Project list: get video ram working. Audio would be much
> simpler, of course.
>
Yeah... I was mostly joking about that anyway, putting video chips into a
cart. It would have been a cool thing for a company to do back in the 80's,
but not something I'd seriously do as a hobbyist. Even if I got the thing
designed, it'd cost a fortune to make them, and the program for it would
be useless without it. Also, if I wanted to use a framebuffer, there's always
the Atari 1200XL up in the attic :)
> > I'm not familiar with these PLDs... what's a good example of this kind of
> > chip?
>
> Try doing a Google search for "palce22v10 datasheet". It'll get you started.
>
Ah, thanks.
>
> Yep, that's all good. But really, all you need is 2 8-bit registers and
> a quad 2-to-1 mux chip to build a parallel port cart dumper. And the cart
> port of course. Then it just becomes an exercise in writing QBasic drivers.
>
qbasic?? *shudder*
I'd use perl if I were in a hurry, C if I were doing it for work :)
But then I'm doing everything in Linux, except running z26.
Brian
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