Re: C64/C128 cartridges

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2000-04-06 22:19:26

On Thu, 6 Apr 100 g.j.p.a.a.baltissen@kader.hobby.nl wrote:

> > The cable to the joystick port is probably some sort of copy protection.
> > The cartridge is glued shut, so it may not be easy to open.
> 
> With so many applications another guess is that the port is used for 
> bankswitching.  

Since the cartridge doesn't work, I broke it open.  There appears to be a
16K ROM, 8K RAM, and 8 logic chips.  8 logic chips is quite a lot to run
one ROM and one RAM.  Only one wire is connected to the joystick
connector, at pin 3.

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