> Atari 2600 64K Flat Model -- What's wrong with this picture???
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> Lately, as I've been contemplating the future of the z26 emulator,
> I came to the conclusion that it would be nice if it could run
minimalist
> Commodore 64 binaries, so that we could certify the 6502 CPU emulation
> by running the Wolfgang Lorentz 6502 CPU diagnostics. I thought to do
> this we might need to support the full 64K address space. Then I
started
> thinking, wouldn't it be nice if you could write 2600 programs with the
full
> 64K address space without having to worry about bank-switching? It
> would be easy to do in an emulator, but I thought it would be to little
> purpose since it could never be implemented in a cartridge. But then it
> occurred to me that maybe I was wrong. Maybe it is possible... So I'm
> putting this out to the group to see if anybody can see why it won't
work.
> And who knows? Maybe someone would want to try to build it.
I was toying with the idea of actually building a "souped up" A2600 with a
6502 and say 4 or 8 K RAM. I haven;t gone very far with this idea, but it
shouldn't be too hard to do...
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