Quick aside before I start... Does anyone know where one can buy the
Demo Units and how much they're going for these days? Since Kevin
fixed mine, I guess I don't need one, but I might like to have one
with the label and top cover...
At 8:45 AM 07/13/99, Piero Cavina wrote:
>Instead of writing an emulator for this unit, which might take time, why
>not run it on a 2600 into a PC with a video card and save the movie to disk?
Why write a 2600 emulator when you can play games on a real system?
Besides a true emulator should be able to emulate EVERYTHING the real
thing can do, right? :-)
At 2:25 PM 07/13/99, Eckhard Stolberg wrote:
>What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to replace the joystick
>port loading routine with a call of the SC tape loading routine. It
>wouldn't be quite the same, but at least you could run the demo on
>every SC without the extra hardware.
And therefore possibly put the demo on CD... Man, does anyone feel up
to the challenge? And how exactly would this affect the demo -- i.e.
does it do "smart loads" now, or would the delays of loading via sound
rather than port data be "odd"?
At 3:21 PM 07/13/99, Chris Wilkson wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Eckhard Stolberg wrote:
>> What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to replace the joystick
>> port loading routine with a call of the SC tape loading routine.
>Well, that should be doable. But given the movie in a rom, I don't think
>the hardware would be that tough.
But can we do it in just software? If we wanted hardware, we could just
reproduce the Demo Unit.
At 11:24 PM 07/13/99, Kevin Horton wrote:
>At 12:16 AM 7/13/99 -0600, Russ Perry wrote:
>>So the demo movie is 64K of data, but it's loaded as 4(6?)K at a time?
>It's more complicated than that. You can load data non-sequentially from
>the EPROMs, in increments of 64 bytes.
Can perhaps, but DO they ever do that? It sounds like maybe they do, since
you mention it...
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