2600 in 2006

Thanks for keeping us updated. BTW, I was wondering, would it be difficult to convert Stella Doomdsday Interceptor to 4A50? I hate to see it go unpublished. Maybe it could be a minigame included with Ruby Runner?

Thanks for keeping us updated. BTW, I was wondering, would it be difficult to convert Stella Doomdsday Interceptor to 4A50? I hate to see it go unpublished. Maybe it could be a minigame included with Ruby Runner?

 

Porting SDI to 4A50 would be trivial, but if I'm going to bother, I'd like to fix things up a bit. The game suffers a bit for its being a 1K minigame entry.

 

Otherwise, I finally got the MemCard working in Z26, at least for Strat-O-Gems. The SWCHA code in Z26 didn't really simulate the port's behavior very well. I wonder if there's any good explanation anywhere of the interaction between IOPortA, IOPortA_Controls, IOPortA_Unused, and DDR_A, and what game code quirks the code was trying to deal with? I'll ask on the Stella list.

-2- EEPROM enhancement for AA cart.

-5- EEPROM emulation for Z26 (I'll offer the source code to Stella gurus as well).

Looking forward to these, especially EEPROM emulation. I have found that if emulators don't support my code, I'm somewhat reluctant to work on it, given the hassle of testing on real hardware.

-6- Finding a woman in Illinois who loves the 2600 and loves me (any takers?)

I guess I have lower standards. Merely tolerating my geeky interests is all I expect...