Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

Jason T silent700 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 19:20:05 CST 2015


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:13 PM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
> But yes, there are methods (even from the classic era) to load arbitrary
> code into the 2600 using a proprietary cartridge and a cassette tape
> machine. In essence, the special cart has a small bootstrap ROM that loads
> the software from the cassette into an internal (to the cart) RAM space
> which is then banked in as if it were a real 2600 cart ROM.
>
> Of course, the software is still limited to the hardware resources of the
> 2600.. the cart just emulates a plug-in ROM.
>
> So did this post properly? If not, I don't know how else to do it!

Yep!

As for 2600 cassette schemes,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger was the one I'm
aware of.


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