Subject: Re: [stella] Cartridge dumper From: "Jim and Laura Croniger" <croni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:04:11 -0500 |
Hi Adam, I'd love to get a dumper. Do you have any definite plans on making them available? Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Wozniak" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:44 AM Subject: [stella] Cartridge dumper > So I'm working on a 2600 cartridge dumper. It's a little Scenix 8 > bit micro with a cart slot, a serial port, and a little reset button. > Pop in a cart, hit reset, the data gets dumped out to the serial port. > > I've got lots of time on my hands (see .sig, I'm available for consulting > work) so I decide I'm going to autodetect the bank switching scheme. > > No big deal, except now I need test carts for each of the bank switching > schemes. > > So far I have a 2K (Freeway), a 4K (Reactor), and F8 (Raiders of the > Lost Ark) and a DPC (Pitfall II). Digging through my bag of goodies, > I cannot find any carts of other bank switching schemes. My collection > is fairly small. Can anyone name common carts of other schemes? I hate > to go down to the local cart seller with a long stella.pro printout. > > Also, I think I've found some errors/ omissions in Kevin Horton's > "sizes.txt" bank switching document. For example, $1FF8 and $1FF9 do > not seem to be the only hot spots on F8 carts; $1FF7 also seems to be > active (and many others). I don't think the hardware looks at the whole > address bus to switch banks. Where is the CommaVid documentation? > Ditto for the DPC, although I think there's enough info in the patent > if I dig through all the patentese. > > Also, would anyone be interested in buying a dumper like this? > My biggest cost is the PC board fab, which could be brought down if I > made a large order. > > -- > Will code for food. http://cuddlepuddle.org/~adam/resume.html > > adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://cuddlepuddle.org/~adam/pgp.html > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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