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[GroovyBee]

Tom, on Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:23 AM, said:

Well, I'm more waiting for easily available PCBs with EPROM, RAM and a socket for a sound chip (doesn't have to be a Pokey...you could stick in a CPLD or Micro emulating anything, right). That would be quite sufficient for me.

What are you using for development at the moment? Is it a RAM cart or a ZIF socket EPROM cart?

[Goochman]

Lynxpro, on Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:06 PM, said:

GroovyBee, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:34 PM, said:

The 7800 version can be downloaded here :-

I want to see a conversion of "Midnight Mutants" to the "Charlie Sheen's Adventures" where you are a frikkin' warlock rockstar from Mars and you have to save the planet by gaining Tigerblood power-ups and Adonis DNA enhancers as you try to take down the evil Hollywood studios and save all of the planet's women for yourself...

Each time you kill a villain, an audio sample would play Sheen proclaiming "winning" and if you have an SIO-to-Ethernet cable connection for the 7800XM, it'll post your current score with hashtag #winning to Twitter.

I'd pay $50 for that. And you know Charlie Sheen would eat that up big-time.

Id rather see a Charlie Sheen 'whose your daddy' custers revenge modifcation starring the 'goddesses'

[Tom]

ZIF socket, using 27C256s. I think it was a Digdug Cart I slaughtered. EPROM carts are very easy to build, and quite OK to work with. What annoys me most about this is that to burn the EPROMs I have to use a different PC since I can't get my EPROM burner to work with my new notebook.

I mean, at some point you rarely need to test on real hardware because you know more and more what you're doing. I do most testing on emulators, occasionally I burn an EPROM, and when I've used up enough of them to fill the eraser I'll erase them.

[GroovyBee]

Tom, on Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:56 AM, said:

I mean, at some point you rarely need to test on real hardware because you know more and more what you're doing. I do most testing on emulators, occasionally I burn an EPROM, and when I've used up enough of them to fill the eraser I'll erase them.

When you start pushing the machine the emulators aren't so good.

[Lynxpro]

Goochman, on Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:50 AM, said:

Id rather see a Charlie Sheen 'whose your daddy' custers revenge modifcation starring the 'goddesses'

That was full of win...

[DracIsBack]

Tom, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:00 AM, said:

Oh yes, fwiw, I coded this.

Cool job, Tom! Kinda neat to see on the screen. :-) and works fine on a real 7800.