From: groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2002-02-05 15:54:17
Hello Marko, Tuesday, February 05, 2002, 3:45:01 PM, you wrote: MM> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, groepaz wrote: >> naaaaa, most cart games i have taken apart do NOT use the cartspace as >> kindof "romdisc" MM> Which era cartridges are you talking about? errr...honestly dont remember :=P i messed around with that stuff like 10 years ago or sth :o) MM> Anyway, if I were to stuff MM> hundreds of kilobytes of code to a C64 cartridge, I wouldn't do it with MM> simple bank-switching; instead, I'd adapt PuCrunch and decompress the MM> "files" from the cartridge to RAM as needed. yesyesyes.... from todays viewpoint, 100% right..... but back in time, the one reason for making a cart-game was copy-protection... and nothing is easier to crack than a cartridge thats already using its own clean rom-filesystem :o) oh and the bankswitching usually wasn't "simple" either :=P it wouldnt have taken over 15years for certain games to be cracked (made a disc-version of) if it had been all that easy :o) MM> As a matter of fact, that's MM> what I did with the VIC-20 RAM/ROM cartridge (32k/2M) I'm working on. MM> The software is finished, but the hardware is not. wow vic-20 stuff :=P we all knew you were crazy ;=DDD /me want vic-20 for some democoding *G* >> ofcoz for porting a floppy based game to cart, you could do it this >> way (never seen it done though) MM> Have you seen the newer 256k or 512k ROM cartridges? I've heard rumours MM> that they'd use such approach. I haven't disassembled any of those, so I MM> can't say for sure. well yeah, i have... and those didnt quite use a filesystem :o) they DID use eg packed files on the cart, but NOT organized/layouted like a filesystem. i know for a fact though that a bunch of GBC carts use that approach.... thats a different story though ;=P -- Best regards, groepaz mailto:groepaz_at_gmx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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