Ian Primus Posted May 14, 2001 Share Posted May 14, 2001 I have begun to dabble in 2600 programming, and I was wondering if it is possible to create a programmable cart. Perhaps with an EPROM or EEPROM or even flash memory. I would love to be able to test things on the actual console, and it would be nice to have easily eraseable carts. (People would look at me funny if I went into a tanning parlor with a bunch of EPROMs to erase) Does anyone have schematics for such a cart / cart writer/reader? I would think that it would be entirely possible to convert a Pac-Man cart or something. (Unfortunately, Combat is missing a pin on the card edge connector, so I don't think I can use that) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Ian Primus ian.primus@usa.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarinvader Posted May 15, 2001 Share Posted May 15, 2001 Check out the happy cart:- http://www.retrocomputing.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzLee Posted May 16, 2001 Share Posted May 16, 2001 You are in luck. No need to re-invent the wheel here. There are at least 3 otions for you. Option 1: Chad Schell's "Cuttle Cart" aka "SuperDuperCharger. Playloads and plays every Atari 2600 game. Option 2: The 7800 Dev kit (Trac-Mar as I call it). Requires modifiying your 7800 and building a ram cart. WIth this setup you can load quite a few Atari 2600 games and many 7800 games as well. Option 3: The Starpath SuperCharger will provide similar capability as teh Cuttle Cart, but will not support bankswitched games. I don't have handy links to the above site, but a search on any of these should yeild the info you are looking for. Good luck, -Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Primus Posted May 16, 2001 Author Share Posted May 16, 2001 I don't have a 7800, nor have I ever actually seen one. I only have a 2600. Is there a way to make something similar to the 7800 dev system on the Atari 2600? Ian Primus ian.primus@usa.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khryssun Posted May 17, 2001 Share Posted May 17, 2001 This may help : How to build VCS2600 multi-cart : http://members.home.com/rcolbert1/multi.htm Schematics for building an Atari 2600 Game Recorder : http://www.gamingdepot.com/2600/ these projects seems interesting, anyway I'll be glad to find schematics to build a system with flash memory. If you know such thing, please let me know ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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