Re: Are you alone tonight?--

[Darren Spiteri <Spit@spam-free.UUCP>]

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:51:32 +0000, Jason wrote:
> John G.Burns:
> > Big problem with the VIC (Video Interface Controller!) was it's 3.5K
> > of RAM which I don't THINK was easily expanded.

> Except with a nice, chunky RAMPack that slapped into the cartridge port.
> Mine was made by Vixen, although there were loads of manufacturers out
> there with their own version, and had a couple of switches that allowed
> it to be 3K, 8K or 16K.  I may be remembering wrongly, but didn't
> someone do a 32K one as well...?

Someone did a 64k cart for it too, don't ask me how. I expanded my homebrew
32K to 64K and battery-backed one of the banks for storage of my favourite
progs ala the Atari2600 RAM cart in Disc=overy.

Something I'm working on is battery-backing the 3K expansion I added so I can
keep some utilities like PRLINK's prserver ready to go, diskless computing. :)
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