[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Coco flash cartridge

James Diffendaffer jdiffendaffer at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 21 10:29:59 EDT 2007


Someone could also write a file system for the flash cart if it can be
paged from software.

Adding a jumper or something so you can disable writes to the cart
would also be nice in case someone wants to distribute software on it.

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "James Diffendaffer"
<jdiffendaffer at ...> wrote:
>
> Mark, if you remove the dipswitch and add a latch that can be written
> to on the computer the flash cart can be used as a multicart with a
> menu to select the game you want to play.  This has been done on the
> Atari's, Vectrex and several other systems.
> 
> It could also be used to write programs that take more memory than can
> be addressed on the cart interface since you can page through the
> cart's memory from software.
>





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