[Coco] Memory expansion

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Mon Aug 13 21:47:29 EDT 2018


Speaking of cartridge memory; Disto made a RAM pack back in the day. 
Usually 512k, but mine had 768k.  I thought about upping that to 1 meg, 
but have not gotten a "Round Tuit" (tm) yet.
Bruce W.


On 08/13/2018 09:36 PM, Carlos Santiago wrote:
> Additional memory could be added to the cart port or MPI. It would require additional circuitry to fully decode the space and registers to switch banks. This memory could be ROM and/or RAM.
> Carlos
> 
>> On Aug 11, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> A quick question for our hardware gurus.
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>>
>> Would it be possible to make a cartridge memory expansion?
>>
>> That is a memory expansion on a cartridge that could be plugged
>>
>> into the MPI instead of inside the COCO itself.  I can think of
>>
>> some things that might be problematic but I am no expert by any
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>> stretch of the imagination.  So, I defer to the real experts.
>>
>>
>> bill


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