At 3:46 AM 07/12/99, Kevin Horton wrote:
>At 11:46 PM 7/10/99 -0600, Russ Perry wrote:
>>>>I want to dump the roms in my unit, however, given how rare these things
>>>>are, I am nervous about reverse engineering it.
>>I'm asking Kevin to send me copies of the ROM images; I think Sean Kelly
>>already has a set as well.
>I'm here ya know. :-)
Whoops! Guess I didn't... Sorry.
>I'll put them up some time later this week.
Awesome.
>BTW, you will have a very fun time figuring out how this thing works. It's
>not very easy, and I'm pretty suprised they wasted this much effort on it,
>tell you the truth :-) It's *very* complicated.
In your opinion, could it have been done more easily? You keep saying it's
unconventional, but is it unconventional just to get it to work at all?
>There are 9 EPROMs, 8 8K EPROMs with the supercharger code on it, and 1 2K
>EPROM with the control code for the on-board 6805. It does indeed send 4
>bits at a time to the 2600, and a 6K data load (for the demo games) takes
>about 1/3rd of a second, maybe 1/2 at most.
So the demo movie is 64K of data, but it's loaded as 4(6?)K at a time?
>I'm still working on figuring it out, and it's not very nice. They did alot
>of tricks on it and I'm still trying to figure them all out... getting an emu
>to run the whole demo would be a pretty big acheivement, unless you "cheat" a
>bit on it :-)
Cheat? You have suggestions? Brad! John! Which one of you guys is going to
implement this first? :-)
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