> > Yes, John, Lee and me are working on a 7800 RAM cart. It basically
> > consists of a new OS for the 7800, a simple cable between a 7800
> > controller port and the PC parallel port and a 7800 game cartridge,
> > that has been modified to work with RAM chips. Plans for the first
> > version can be found at http://quadrun.tripod.com
> >
> > Since then we have already got a simpler 48kb RAM cart working and
> > are now adding features to the PC transfer program. John is currently
> > pretty busy with other things, so a release of this will probably
> > take some time.
> >
> > Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg
>
> Yes, to add further comment to Eckhard's remarks. The plans are all on the
> webpage I believe?!? John and I want to make a run of boards and probably
> provide this in a kit form. Making cables and modifying 7800's is going to be
> waaaay too much work, but making a kit for the diehard hobbyist is probably
> the way to go. The 48k cart size will hold firm as extra hardware would be
> needed for the supercarts. While we were at it, we would make boards for folks
> to easily modify their 2600/7800 to output composite/S-video also in a kit
> form.
>
> BTW: John and Eckhard are the ones to be commended for developing the ram cart
> (ala Trac-Mar). I mainly provided enthusiasm and the hardware to develop the
> Ram Cart. Sometimes we have to give John a big push to get him excited. Since
> I live not to far from him, it was easier for me to go over there and get him
> kick started with a beer or two :-) I don't quite have the free time needed to
> develop this stuff, like I would like. However, now that Boeing Engineer's are
> on strike......
Pretty darn cool!
A quesiton though, the RAM in the cart is generically writeable then? (ie.
it is wired as normal RAM, and a program running on it could use the RAM
for it's general purpose?)
Is there an upgrade or further advancements in the future?
Thanks for letting us all know what's going on!
Mark
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