Re: [stella] The mother of all bankswitching trickery :-)

Subject: Re: [stella] The mother of all bankswitching trickery :-)
From: "Eric Ball" <ericball@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 20:55:40 -0500
From: "Glenn Saunders" <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The 6507 has 13 bits of available addressing off the chip through the
> pins.  The 2600 throws away a bit on the way to the cart port.

Not quite.  The cartridge connector has all 13 address lines (A0-A12), but
typically A12 is used as a positive chip select or output enable.  Thus FE
bankswitching is possible, because the cartridge can monitor all memory
accesses.

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