Subject: [stella] Cartridge dumper From: Adam Wozniak <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:44:41 -0800 (PST) |
So I'm working on a 2600 cartridge dumper. It's a little Scenix 8 bit micro with a cart slot, a serial port, and a little reset button. Pop in a cart, hit reset, the data gets dumped out to the serial port. I've got lots of time on my hands (see .sig, I'm available for consulting work) so I decide I'm going to autodetect the bank switching scheme. No big deal, except now I need test carts for each of the bank switching schemes. So far I have a 2K (Freeway), a 4K (Reactor), and F8 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and a DPC (Pitfall II). Digging through my bag of goodies, I cannot find any carts of other bank switching schemes. My collection is fairly small. Can anyone name common carts of other schemes? I hate to go down to the local cart seller with a long stella.pro printout. Also, I think I've found some errors/ omissions in Kevin Horton's "sizes.txt" bank switching document. For example, $1FF8 and $1FF9 do not seem to be the only hot spots on F8 carts; $1FF7 also seems to be active (and many others). I don't think the hardware looks at the whole address bus to switch banks. Where is the CommaVid documentation? Ditto for the DPC, although I think there's enough info in the patent if I dig through all the patentese. Also, would anyone be interested in buying a dumper like this? My biggest cost is the PC board fab, which could be brought down if I made a large order. -- Will code for food. http://cuddlepuddle.org/~adam/resume.html adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://cuddlepuddle.org/~adam/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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