Re: Soft game settings vs. dipswitches?

I don't know what their prices are, but Xicor makes those "parallel eeproms".
Basically they look like an SRAM at the pins. Internally there is an
eeprom, so that when power is lost, the contents of the SRAM is dumped into
the internal eeprom. Then when power is restored, the contents of the
eeprom is dumped into the SRAM. Pretty cool devices, but I'm sure Clay
knows about these buggers.
Example: http://www.xicor.com/product_summaries/x28hc64_summary.html

-anders.

At 08:59 AM 4/5/00 -0700, you wrote:

>Can I still beg for an eeprom solution? or at least external
>battery sram? When it boots, the eeprom data is read into ram,
>and eeprom is then only accessed then during menu or high score
>saves. I know this is more complicated, but if the battery backed
>sram doesn't at least have an external battery, Ram changes so
>often, it'll be a pain in 10-15 years.
>
>James
>
>
>=============================================
>I'm just using an ST MK48Z02. (Zeropower SRAM) Cheap and available
>with second sources. The battery is built-in, so ten years down
>the road people will just have to replace it.
>
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