[Coco] A cartridge to hack

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 12:35:35 EDT 2012


buy a superIDE, also a multipack and a floppy disk drive and a controller :P


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> ROM's are socketed in rs-232 and drive controller paks generally... ?  Not
> that you would want to ruin one of these cartridges, but pretty easy to swap
> out a ROM without damage...
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce W. Calkins"
> <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] A cartridge to hack
>
>
>>
>> Early ROM packs had 4k ROMs or two 4k ROMs.  A few had 8k DIP ROMs,
>> however they were not directly convertable to EPROM configuration without
>> some hacking.  Later ROM packs had blobs without accessable chips.
>>
>> You would probably be better off finding a expermenter's card and wireing
>> up your own ROM card.  However ones fitting the CoCo are not common now.
>>
>> Bruce W.
>>
>> ==========================
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Castro"
>>
>>> I want a simple thing: a CoCo 1/2 cartridge that uses a 16 KB ROM
>>> (C000-FEFF) so I can replace it with a socket and burn and test
>>> homebrew ROMs until the cows come home. What should I buy?
>>>
>>> Juan
>>
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