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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 600 PCMCIA
- Message-ID: <36798@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 06:14:50 GMT
- References: <lfoh3jINNqv8@news.bbn.com>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 17
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- In article <lfoh3jINNqv8@news.bbn.com> leekil@BBN.COM (Lee Kilpatrick) writes:
- >
- > With the PCMCIA expansion port on the Amiga 600, I assume it is
- > possible to put ROM memory here to use the port for game cartridges?
- > Someone in a recent AmigaWorld mentioned that how the 600 might draw
- > kids away from Nintendos, and if it had the ability to use cartridges,
- > that would help. Would PCMCIA be too expensive to use for cartridges?
-
- Yes, it can be used as a ROM cartridge, both the hardware and software
- offer support for this mode. Unfortunatly, the basic PCMCIA card/
- connector and the large 16-bit ROM's needed for Amiga software make
- the cartridges pretty expensive compared to 8-bit game stuff.
-
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