[Coco] Fwd: Re: 32K carts?

tim lindner tlindner at macmess.org
Mon Oct 22 17:40:58 EDT 2007


<flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Joe, I'm not sure about the cartridges you mention, but some large
> cartridge games used a bank-switching scheme that relied on circuitry
> inside the cartridge to switch between 8K banks of ROM within the
> cartridge by poking a bank number into $FF40(?) to access different
> parts of the code.  You might take a look at the game's code to see if
> you see anything that looks like that.  They may have avoided using the
> 32K external mode in order to be able to run on the CoCo 1/2.

The OP refrenced Arkanoid, and it does not contain bank switching logic.

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tim lindner
tlindner at macmess.org                                        Bright



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