Subject: Re: [stella] Megacart Specs From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:33:04 -0700 (PDT) |
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Chris Wilkson wrote: > RAM (see below). You could use 3K blocks for ROM and permently map RAM > into the remaining 1K, but that either wastes ROM space or the decoding > gets nasty from a hardware point of view. Small games, okay, but it just seems that if you've written a game that uses the full 128K of ROM code (a huge kernel and tons of date) and you have only 1K linear ROM available at a time that the programmer is going to have to bank switch constantly to get anything done. The percetage of bankswitching code to useful code is starting to get really wasteful. After you load the 1K chunks, can you run a program linearly across the loaded banks without bit-twiddling? If so, then it's not too bad because you could write code as de-facto 3K chunks and then swap three banks in and out that way but I don't know why a program would need to be broken down into even small chunks. -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html Don't post pirate BINs to Stellalist. Be a programmer, not a pirate. Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!!
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