gnome@oliven.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (04/03/84)
To the line-eater
Of the Vectrex carts that I have, this is a list of which carts
are 4k rom and 8k rom based.
8K -
Web Wars Animaction (with 2k RAM) Spike
Fortress of Narzod Spinball
4K -
Clean Sweep ArtMaster Rip Off Scramble
Armor Attack Bedlam Starhawk Starcastle
Cosmic Chasm Hyperchase
Here's an interesting post-note. 3D minestorm was released
on EPROM! Inside the cartridge is a Hitachi 2764 8Kx8.
This means that damn few of the carts were released, because
mass production (in game quantities) with EPROMS is very
expensive indeed.
I'm surprised to find Spinball and Narzod on the 8K list.
Spike, even though simple in operation, probably eats up
space with the voice section of code.
I am going to change my hardware to ignore ROM size and
read out the remaining code to try to understand some
of the more esoteric routines (like Spike, and light-pen
cartridges have).
If anyone out there has any suggestions as to the
"standard Vec hacking workstation" please let me know.
A Coco seems like a decent start - being a cheap 6809 based
keyboard/processor.
As Phil Donahue would say -
"uhm, come on - help me out..."
Gary
(hplabs,allegra)oliveb!oliven!gnome
out of reach of the ARPANET.....