On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:00:38PM -0600, Jim Brain wrote: >I have two versions of my expansion. VIC-MIDI (512k/128k) and UltiMem >(8M/1M) I have not put UltiMem in the store yet. It is also in the VICE Subversion repository since r30371. I also ported most of the Vic Flash Plugin software to it, and I plan to release that on my home page as soon as I can test it on the real hardware. A planned follow-up development is a rudimentary flash file system, so that you can use the 8MiB or 512KiB flash as mass storage, in case you prefer a barebones system with the minimum amount of cables. The file system probably will not support proper deleting or save-and-replace, but it would support subdirectories. (We can mark files deleted by clearing some bit. If you want to reclaim space, you have to erase the whole file system.) The current software allows you to create and write an image that contains directories of program files or ROM images. I created a test image with some 5 megabytes of Vic-20 software. Unlike in the Vic Flash Plugin (which was never mass-produced), the image is in uncompressed format, and ROM images are always aligned on 8KiB pages, so that a 4KiB ROM would occupy 8KiB. The benefit is that they can be launched instantaneously, without any copying. So far, nobody seemed to answer my question about Vic-20 cartridges that use I/O2 or I/O3. I know only one such cartridge: the tape fastloader Vic Rabbit maps 4KiB of ROM there. But is there anything that maps hardware to I/O2 or I/O3? Any EPROM burner? Relay controller? Anything done and distributed in a smaller scale by some third party? Or were most peripherals for the user port and the IEC bus? Marko Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-01-11 20:00:09
Archive generated by hypermail 2.2.0.