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Re: How much of a ][ is needed to twitch?



mdj wrote:
On Feb 13, 4:46 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:


I tested my "secret" project today. It didn't work. When I start seeing
results / make it look less pathetic / pose less danger to people's
precious hardware I'll reveal more. Or I guess if I'm asked nicely.

Pretty please...with chocolate fudge and sprinkles on top...  ;-)


You might have more luck with a beer, or a lamington.

Yep, I figured my request could use "localization".  ;-)

I really should have said "main board ROM", since that's the
address space that a RAM card maps to.  It is possible for a
slot card to disable all main board address decoding, and so
take over for main board ROM *and* RAM, but I'm not aware of
any manufactured cards that do so.  This would be the only way
to get page zero, etc., mapped to a slot card.

Shame. Such a card would be very useful.

I misspoke.  ;-(

A slot card can take over ROM space ($D000..$FFFF), but it cannot
take over RAM space using slot signals.


This is true of the original II only - on the IIe and IIgs /INH
overrides the entire address space.

Which is what I was thinking about--but his is a ][.

-michael

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