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From: koreth@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Froot-Loops Addict)
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Subject: Re: Making Magic Sac compatible with 128K Roms
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Date: 13 Jul 88 05:48:04 GMT
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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.
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>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)
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