Re: TI-H: An idea for separate game carts.


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Re: TI-H: An idea for separate game carts.



>I was reading on Richfiles, underProgramming tips and Tricks, and he
>brought up how The GAMEBOY, and other hand held video Gaming devices
>(other than TI-Calcs) use assembly languages on their game carts.  
Would
>it be possible for someone to develop A type of chip, or chips that
>could be used primarily for a single lone game, and I mean an awesome
>game.  Then put it into the Spinterface cart, and then make a special
>interrupt driven _shell_, or whatever that is completely ZShell
>compatible, yet when you plug the game cart into the Spinterface port,
>then turn the power on, you would then be running the cart.  So, this
>_shell_, upon turning on the calc, runs a test on the Spinterface port,
>that sees if anything is connected, if not, starts up normally, if so,
>directly runs the game on the cart.  Does any of this sound feasible at
>all?
>-- Sincerely,
    Kevin

The gameboy uses the exact chip as the TI-8x, a Z80 4Mhz. I came across 
this site "http://www.freeflight.com/fms/" that has a gameboy emulator 
and other Z80 emulators, all including scource. I whould hope that 
making a cart for the SPI (SPinTerface) and a shell prog to read the rom 
chip would rule. Scince the GB (gameboy) carts are at least 512k each 
these SPI carts would be necesary.

-Joe Martis

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