Very impressive.
Maybe someone can combine this with the Cybertech A/V mod (there probably
isn't enough room for both to coexist separately) and offer it
commercially. It's just a drop-in daughtercard that goes into the 6507
socket, right? It doesn't require any jumper wires? The cart port is
still pretty much the same, right?
I guess you are planning to write the boot-loader so you can load games
directly through RS232 rather than cart. Since 32K linear RAM is a nicer
memory model to work in I'm assuming that if you wrote a game on cart you'd
probably want to store the game like a file in banked ROM and have a loader
routine copy it all to RAM and then jump into it.
Plus, with the RS232 then you could write a simple client-server app on the
PC that could read and write files on demand for the 2600, which could also
be used in mid-game for levels, high-score saves, etc..
You could write a pretty massive RPG that way.
I know you can still do something like this by sacrificing a joystick port
by using a Cuttle Cart/SC but you just can't hold much RAM at a time that
way so you'd be requesting loads pretty constantly.
How fast do you think the serial could go with the stock 2600's 6507 clock
speed?
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