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Waiting for Knight Tyme or Stormbringer to show up
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post is 10 years old - Wow - talk about a "Blast' From the past
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Sorry i should have been more specific - Games in General - Often if you mess up on something whilst playing and want to start it may take a ponderous time to lose lives, or in the case of a sports/timing games can take forever. or even accidental pressing of reset instead of option. (resulting in a reload - tapes taking 20 min on some games made this painful). With loading taking seconds with SD and multi-carts these days its not a biggie but back in the day with tape players to depend on, it made a big difference on occasion. Yes, a warm start would sum up what i think (most) games would benefit from. Can understand non games having their own needs on whether this is required.
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Interesting to know if it would be easy enough to code back in the day, so it stays in memory?
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This question has had me pondering for a while now, After loading a particular game on a 'Vanilla' Atari when you press RESET it sometimes restarts the game and sometimes its lost from memory and tries to look for a drive. Is there any reason why some games are programmed to have the game still in memory and others are lost if RESET is pressed. (or certain types have no choice in the matter?) Sorry if this has been asked before, tried searching but couldn't see mention of it.
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flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Thanks 😃 -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Are there gerber folder/files availalble for this?, I didnt spot them on Github -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Thanks for the info guys, I'll focus on 2600 titles for this PCB and look at the other for 7800. I was thinking of a DC delay circuit for the over-quick startup inside a real 7800 to let the Pico catch up, if i implement this, ill share when tested. Great support here and I thank you all for this! -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Im currently building this up and have noticed there is a difference on pcb revision from the pictures on the github and previous posts. Could someone kindly let me know what resistor value R3 is on this build? (Its from the VBUS leg to the capacitor) -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Thanks, i mainly game with 7800 stock titles, but good info to know for the higher end titles done more recently with the extra weight, -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
Thanks, Ill heed advice and stick to the SC0915 type as recommended earlier in the posts, https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/358-SC0915 -
flash cart DIY 2600+ flash cart with a Raspberry Pico
Magic Knight replied to karri's topic in Atari 2600+
How important is the spec of the PICO board in that tthe fimware works with it? (Ram, memory etc). The board below (from Alliexpress) is used on the A8PICO cart and i haven't had an issue in quality. Would the one below also work with the 2600+ card project build? -
Now its gone! 😵 Cant get it at moment Not showing up on Amazon searches either (only linkage from Google)
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A8PicoCart - UnoCart on a Raspberry Pi Pico
Magic Knight replied to electrotrains's topic in Atari 8-Bit Computers
Hi, is it potentially possible to do this with XEX files? Looks like currently it's only CAR or Roms that can be Autorun.(format) Would love to see a single XEX run off the single booter program.- 544 replies
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Alas I tried this with several XEX files and just black screen. Anything with CAR was no problem. I too would like XEX files to autorun but they only seem to work with the menu based software. I guess a fix could be done as clearly it's capable of XEX.
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