Re: MMU prototyping

From: Luke Crook <luke_at_balooga.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 19:06:26 -0700
Message-ID: <CADtPBF0bpQ=mAnm+3GX4nxLUWsJWciqtbEQzQOd-O0hu_75OPQ@mail.gmail.com>
If the cart contained the RAM, dual porting would be useful.

https://hackaday.com/2014/12/26/dual-porting-a-c64-flash-cart/

/Luke

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 14:48 smf <smf@null.net> wrote:

> On 24/05/2018 18:38, Jim Brain wrote:
>
> > You would get exactly that.  All RAM except the 4kB at the bottom and
> > the IO page would disappear.  If you were able to configure this unit
> > to replace the open space with RAM, the entire rest of the memory map
> > would have RAM in place for all CPU cycles.
>
> If you have a load of ROM that can also be paged in, then it might be
> quite interesting. It would get past the vic being hard coded to see
> character rom at magic addresses.
>
> Obviously you'd want to port 3-in-1 software from the plus 4.
>
> You'd lose $00/$01 being able to page in/out the kernal and basic, but
> you probably want a new set of roms that knows about the extra ram anyway.
>
>
>
Received on 2018-05-25 05:00:07

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