Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!saturn!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!koreth From: koreth@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Froot-Loops Addict) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Making Magic Sac compatible with 128K Roms Message-ID: <4132@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 05:48:04 GMT References: <1988Jul12.201345.24692@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: koreth@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Froot-Loops Addict) Organization: American Redundancy Society of America Lines: 22 In article <1988Jul12.201345.24692@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> lharris@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Leonard Harris) writes: >Does anyone have any info on patching magic sac to the 128K roms. [deleted] >Technically there should be no problem. I believe there is a technical problem, actually. Isn't the cartridge's address bus only 16 bits wide? If so, that places a 64K limit on the size of cartridge software, unless some fancy footwork (a la OSS's SuperCartridges on the 8-bit) is done to increase the effective space. And said footwork isn't trivial, as far as I know. Of course, I'm not a hardware person, so this could be totally bogus. -Steven Grimm (posting from a different machine than usual because he's lazy) koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth +New! Improved! Now 200% Artificial-+-+----------Steven Grimm-------------+ |# # @@@ **** &&&&& $$$$$ % %| | ARPA: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu | |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth| |### @ @ **** &&&& $ %%%%%| |___________________________________| |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+"You can lead a fish to water, but | |# # @@@ * ** &&&&& $ % %| |you have to run fast or he'll die."| +-----with NutraSour(TM)! No natural colors or preservatives!------------+