> over-engineer than not! ;) Not to mention all the timing issues than
> can be circumvented by having creative branching in your now very long
> display drawing kernal.
Granted, I spoke in haste and error.
> And I will have to respectfully disagree with your assertion than this
> mythical 1 meg cart (by 1 meg, I merely meant to symbolize "much bigger
> than we anticipate needing") would kill the nostalgia. If it's got two
> sprites, reflected/mirrored playfields, whatever groovy sound chip is in
> there, and a 6507 to run the whole shibang (leaving the display sync to
> the software), it's going to walk, talk, and look like a duck, er,
> 2600!!!
A walking 2600 I'd like to see...
Which leaves the question of how. I'm thinking an 8-bit register with parts
used as the high address bits, itself mapped to the top of all banks. This
has the advantage of making it possible to add RAM bit-by-bit. I'm still
new to this; I'll look up chip #s when I get home.
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