[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 163, Issue 7

[RETRO Innovations]

On 5/3/2016 8:03 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> Wrong, prototypes have been produced and demoed at the CoCo FEST of a 8 mega byte rewritable flash cartridge with bank switching capability. I currently have one, which I demoed to some people at the CoCo FEST.
>
>> John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
>> Tue May 3 14:59:37 EDT 2016
>>
>> Note that Robocop uses a bank-switching technique to achieve that,
>> and AFAIK no one is actively producing such hardware (yet).
>>
>> For "normal" (i.e. not bank-switched) usage, a CoCo ROM Pak is limited
>> to a bit less than 16K.  For a CoCo3-only ROM Pak, the normal limit
>> would be a bit less than 32K.
>>
>> John
>
I *think* John is hinting about your cart, without committing himself, 
hence the "yet" part... :-)

Jim

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