[Coco] Coco Homebrew ROM Cartridge?

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Sun Apr 19 14:10:49 EDT 2009


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +0100, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Derek wrote:

>> The reason I ask is I just saw the custom made cartridge board  
>> advertisement on the coco3.com home page and it got me curious
>
> Not guilty, but a basic bankswitched cart isn't that hard to do, a  
> decoder off the address lines and a latch should do it, even simpler if  
> you don't need to use it at the same time as disk drives, as you can  
> just use P2/SCS to enable the latch at $FF40.

FWIW, it just occured to me that the Predator and Robocop ROM Paks
already have the requisite hardware to switch between a minimal number
of images.  Of course, neither of them seems to be common...

John
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