AtariVox High Score Saving, etc.

[Paul Slocum <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure most of you have seen the AtariVox board:

http://www.richard.hutchinson.dsl.pipex.com/new_page_5.htm

It includes a 32K EEPROM where you can save high score data and stuff.  I 
think it would be cool if some of the past homebrews added support for 
this.  I'm going to do it with Marble Craze if I can find enough free space.

There's good technical documentation on the page and it includes some 
easy-to-use code to get you working with the EEPROM (and speech 
chip).  They've included a specification of a system setup block that 
currently includes TV information (PAL/NTSC/60Hz/50Hz) so you can 
automatically set up your game accordingly.  Pretty cool stuff.

I'm finally hammering out a new Atari 2600 music sequencing program (been 
planning this for a long time) and I'm going to use the EEPROM to allow the 
user to save sequences.

-paul