Flash ROM VCSp

[bicostp]

There's a 2600 cart for sale at the Atariage store: the "Krokodile Cartridge". It's a 512k flash ROM, it supports most of the ROM paging modes, and it connects to the PC through a serial port. I am not advocating the use of ROMS, and that's not what this article is about. I'm asking "Would it be easily accomplished to make a portable with a built in Flash ROM card?" (I'm just using the Krok Cart as an example) And could it possibly have an a/b switch and a cart slot so you can play real games or the internal cart?

I'll post a crappy Paint Pic of a concept drawing later.

[soundwave]

I imagine you could wire in 'two cart slots', and have a switch between the power of each. The second cart slot would just be some wires soldered onto the Krok Kart or whatever its called, have it internal.

[bicostp]

As promised, here's the Crappy Paint Pic (TM)



The largest rectangle, with the screen, is the front of tha case. It has a paddle pot, D-pad, trigger button, and select/reset buttons. The view below is the bottom of the unit. It has the A/V output and headphone jack, a DC input jack, and a Tint adjustment hole. (A small screwdriver is inserted into the hole to turn the pot.)

The last rectangle is the left side of the unit. It has a Krok Kart / Cart slot selecter switch, a volume knob, and a power sw itch (which I forgot to add. Oops.) The black box on the back is the cartridge slot connector. But, for the sake of simplicity, I guess you could do away with the cart slot altogether.

Does anyone have any comments / suggestions?

[Stooge]

Why bother hardwireing it in? Its just a cart so use it like any other cart.

[bicostp]

The point is, you don't have to carry around an extra cart to play a quick game of Pitfall or Pac-Man.

[tom61]

I can't seem to find the cart you mentioned, do you have a direct link to it?

Interesting idea.

[bicostp]

No problem.

Here's their Homepage.

Here's the article about it on AtariAge.

And here's its "shelf" in the AtariAge Store.

Hope this helps!