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Article #1971Re: --- Action! (for the new owner) ---
From: Ray Frank
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1986 16:13
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1986 16:13
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> > > 2) Aside from that, it's impossible. The Action! cart is a > (32k?) bank selected "super-cart", meaning that there are > seperate sections of the Action! system that try to run > in the same address space (and can do so due to the bank > selection scheme). You can't get that out into one binary > file. > > -Richard Hartman > max.hartman@ames-vmsb > ------ Just a little correction to an otherwise fine article. The Action! cartridge is actually a 16k bank selectable cartridge. It uses only 8k of ram at any one time. It would be very difficult to duplicate because of the hardware inside the cartridge that does the bank selection. ray's my name Action's! my game.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ray From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: --- Action! (for the new owner) --- Message-ID: <14452@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 11:13:12 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.14452 Posted: Thu Jan 9 11:13:12 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 05:48:46 EST References: <8601080151.AA01300@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 19