10 Apr
1997
10 Apr
'97
3:31 a.m.
On 11-Apr-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
The Full-screen editor & other stuff were in 10K
Rom, with the Basic in
another 8K Rom, totalling 18K.
I wasn't aware that the editor for Basic was in the OS Rom...I stand
corrected. Still, to think that the game cartridges either were confined to
the 8k space or they somehow bankswitched to allow larger programs, I find
interesting.
Of course, there were 3rd party upgrade boards that
would up the memory to
256K to be used as a Ram drive or as a printer buffer... How many people
you know nowadays who are hacking their 486/Pentium machines to be able to
use over 5x more memory than it's supposed to???
A friend of mine had his Atari 800 upgraded to 128k I believe. It required
a bit of soldering on his part to incorporate the bankswitching scheme the
manufacturer used. He also had a 'Happy' chip and any number of other things
added to it as well, having bought the machine new in the early 80's and
continued to use it for quite a few years.
Jeff jeffh(a)eleventh.com
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