Re: omega_race_hig_score_save

Heh heh ...

My bad. I got confused and thought we were talking about a system
that saves stuff to a separate chip, not simply a battery backed RAM.

F

At 01:00 PM 11/2/2008, you wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>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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