Flash Cart Update

[Cupcakus]

Just keeping you all updated on how things are going....

 

Things are moving very smoothly, I have the major BS routines working and will begin working on the RAM functions within the next couple of days...

 

I had some major problems getting Pitfall! to work... I don't know why, but it just wouldn't display... So I've spent over a week getting Pitfall! to work, and this morning I had a breakthrough! :-)

 

Big thanks to bcprs1 for sending me an Asteroids cart I won in his 400th post contest, because it contained the lucky PCB that will play Pitfall!... for some reason the other PCB's I had hacked up just couldn't take it... It's just too much of a game for a Pac-Man PCB I guess :-) Sorry to hack up your prize bcprs1 but it's paving the way towards a brighter tommorrow :-)

 

Here are three webcam shots I took... One is of the cartridge in the 2600, one is of Pitfall! running with a strange pit anomoly I got when the game first started working, and the last is a shot of the screen after I fixed the glitch that was causing the graphics around the pit's to go screwy.

 

A cool thing about that glitch however, was it caused a cool artifact on the opening and closing ponds that let you know exactly how much time you had until it opened again... but alas that was fixed too... sorry!

[Big Player]

I think all of my routines are BS.

 

Seriously though, this looks great. I'm definitely interested in the final product.

 

Thanks for the update.

[church]

Very nice, eagerly waiting for this project to come to fruition.

[borq]

I'd settle for this version (don't know which games use ram).

 

Do you have any idea what are the production costs are going to be? I really want one.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

(don't know which games use ram).

Not too many, but maybe more than you would expect. Here you can find a list.

[D.Yancey]

Cool!! Keep me on the advanced order list!

[Cupcakus]

A lot of really good games use the superchip memory. It would be a shame if we couldn't enjoy them :-) I will be taking photo's later this week of some homebrews running great on it :-) Including Marble Craze!!!!!!!

 

Thanks again Paul!

[gulag picture radio]

Yeah, please keep me on your advance list too. And if you need more Asteroids, you just let old uncle Gulag know...

[atari_aaron]

Yep, I'll order one when they're ready. Looks great!

 

Aaron

[Inky]

I have the major BS routines working

 

Big Player beat me to the obvious pun..