So probably the best thing would be to somehow persuade you to do it. Have
you seen the Megacart thread? It is a discussion that happened in 1998, and
it begins here:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199804/msg00073.html
It's a very interesting design and it looks like it would be pretty easy to
implement. A variation that would take half as many registers and allow
access to twice as much memory would be to make the banks 2K instead of 1K
which is a possibility that was discussed in the thread. I don't think
anybody has acutally written games that need this much capability yet, but
having something along these lines available might be a *good thing*. And
since games don't yet exist, you're free to implement things the way you
like.
John
Chad Schell wrote:
> I won't do anything to stop people from developing their own bankswitching
> formats for the cart, but I think the major limiting factor will be the
> fact that most people will not have access to the required Place and Route
> and bitstream generation tools for Xilinx FPGAs.
>
> Chad
>
> At 12:48 AM 4/12/2003, you wrote:
> >Chad,
> >
> >You mention on your web page that the device will be upgradeable to
support
> >additional bankswitching schemes. Will it be possible for end users to
> >experiment with alternative bankswitch schemes that don't currently
exist?
> >This might be helpful to ambitious homebrewers designing new carts.
> >
> >John
> >
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