At 01:30 AM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Forget the PC, it should be possible to hack a cheap CD player to respond to
various signals sent over the 2600's controller ports without having to
implement RS232 on the 2600. I think 600MB in 4K chunks is plenty ;)
It wouldn't be 600mb in 4K chunks because audio CDs can only store up to 99
tracks and the data would be stored as audio on the CD, not BINs. That
would be 396K if each chunk was 4K (leaving 2K for persistent state and
static code), 594K maximum (6K per load).
As you can see, the problem with CDs is the limitation of the redbook audio
format.
99 loads is a lot of data, though.
tethering an Atari to a PC to get it to do neat stuff feels more like
cheating.
Not necessarily a PC, just anything that can act as a makewav-style
file-server.
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