Re[2]: omega race hig score save

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From: Franklin Bowen <Franklin@Bowen.net>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org, vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:58:44 -0500
Subject: Re: VECTOR: omega race hig score save

>
> At 06:26 PM 10/31/2008, andre wrote:
> >If I go into bookkeeping and can see my highscore before the game is
> >powered down, then the chip 'is' being written to correct?
>
> Unfortunately the answer is possibly. Someone would have to dig
> through the OR code to determine if the high score you are seeing is
> actually from the 5101 or just the information in RAM. It would be
> nice if this information was ONLY stored in the 5101 but the
> realities of slow access time (compared to RAM), limited lifetime,
> component failures, and other factors made the game developers keep a
> copy of the 5101 information cached in the RAM.
>

what the hell are you talking about?
the 5101 *is* ram, and has no life or speed issues.

the problem here is most likely related to the circuit that monitors the supply & gates the r/w & ce signals to prevent corruption.

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Received on Sun Nov 2 13:00:39 2008