applekevin Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 (edited) I was wondering if anyone has the schematics to the supercharger and/or can provide any info on what it had in it's guts. Would it be possible to build a clone of it inside a regular sized cartridge? I know there is the Harmony cartridge, but that's a bit out of my budget ATM, and I'd like to play around with this anyway. EDIT: Well, I feel stupid for having posted that, as I just found the schematics after about 30 seconds of Googling! (Located here http://www.atarihq.com/danb/images/superch.gif for those who are wondering). Anyhow, looking at those, it's really unclear to me what's actually inside. Obviously some RAM chips, but other than I can't tell. Some sort of rudimentary programmable logic? Wouldn't there need to be some sort of basic ADC for the converting the audio? Edited August 13, 2013 by applekevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 You can hack these to work with ROMS up to 4k in size, just by adding a single I.C. Sort of a poor mans Harmony cart. Here's a couple of links to get you going: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/204660-any-info-on-the-starpath-supercharger/page__hl__+supercharger%20+4k#entry2629193 http://atariage.com/forums/topic/180230-starpath-supercharger-question/page__hl__supercharger%204k#entry2257136 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applekevin Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 You can hack these to work with ROMS up to 4k in size, just by adding a single I.C. IIRC. Sort of a poor mans Harmony cart. Having trouble finding the instructions how to do that, but some searching on the net should yield something... Yeah, I remember reading that. IIRC it involves some sort of simple IC (I think a 74xx series). Do you (or anyone else for that matter), at the very least, know where I could find images of the supercharger PCB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Nabbed off of Yahoo! Images... ...oh and check this out: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/117143-my-custom-supercharger-modification/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applekevin Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 (edited) wow! awesome thanks so much! Looking at the PCB. . .urgh, it looks like a custom chip Oh well, there goes that. Then again, I suppose I could use some sort of CPLD, but at that point. . .the harmony would be less hassle anyway. Edited August 13, 2013 by applekevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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