Chris Wilkson - MCD wrote:
>
> > Seems to me the most labour intensive part of making a cart would be wiring
> > up the inverter. If we could mass copy the circuit boards from one of the
> > 2600 games that was released on EPROM it would make things much easier.
> > But I wonder how much something like that would cost.
>
> In my earlier post, I mentioned that I can get *new* 2732 circuit boards made
> for about $1.50. I can design the board in a couple of hours and have protos
> (lower quantiy = higher price) in 2 days.
So, say you went a little further and built a 27128 board with some
decode gates and flip-flops that supported the same bank-switch
addresses as Atari 16K... How much time and expense? Coding for this
is a piece of cake, the dang boards are the only show-stopper to most
people.
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