>>>will be a while before games get that complicated. Perhaps by then, we can
>>>get together on a design for a "generic" 8K/16K/whatever board, and make
>>>enough for everyone, so that the per-board costs are lower. (ie, if I
>>
>>Here's a better idea. Cannibalize Asteroids carts like you did for
>>the Pac-Man and Combats. There must be other OC 8K games. If worse
>>comes to worse, we can buy those bulk cartridges from Oshea for 60c
>>each.
Unfortunatly, they key to bank switched carts is inside the ROM chip
itself. No EPROM would have that kind of bank-switching built in.
Using an 8K board might make things easier, but the cost of getting a
chip maker to create a custom EPROM (or ROM) with the custom bank
switching circuity needed, would be way more than the cost of having
a run of new PC boards made.
Ideally, we would have a "blank" board capable of taking a 74xx NOT gate
and standard 1/2/4K EPROM, or a few standard 74xx chips that impliment
bank switching, and a standard 8/16/32/64K EPROM.
This allows 1) ease of manufactuing 2) spreads the cost out even thinner.
EdF
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