The Quest for a smaller GEORAM

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:31:00 +0100
Message-ID: <1696250.UcTiDjVJDd_at_rakete>
The other day OldWoman37 noted that we support various small sizes for GEORAM
which dont actually relate to real hardware - and we were wondering why this
is the case

Sizes supported in VICE: 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 1M, 2M, 4M

Sizes existing in real Hardware (that we know of): 512k, 1M

Now, there certainly is a good reason to support the 2M and 4M variants, since
you could (and perhaps want) to expand the GEORAM to that size.

However, is there a good reason to support the smaller sizes? Did any
(homebrew perhaps) hardware exist that had less RAM than 512k? Is there any
software around that would require it and not work with 512k?

If the answer to all of this is "no", then it raises the question why we even
have those sizes as an option - and they probably should be removed.

So what we are looking for is any mention of GEORAM compatible hardware that
had less than 512k RAM - please elaborate :)

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Received on 2021-02-12 17:00:03

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