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.
