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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: --- Action! (for the new owner) ---
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 11:13:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 11:13:12 1986
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> 
> 
> 2) Aside from that, it's impossible.  The Action! cart is a 
>    (32k?) bank selected "super-cart", meaning that there are
>    seperate sections of the Action! system that try to run
>    in the same address space (and can do so due to the bank
>    selection scheme).  You can't get that out into one binary
>    file.  
> 
> 		-Richard Hartman
> 		max.hartman@ames-vmsb
> ------

Just a little correction to an otherwise fine article.  The Action! cartridge
is actually a 16k bank selectable cartridge.  It uses only 8k of ram at any
one time.  It would be very difficult to duplicate because of the hardware
inside the cartridge that does the bank selection.

ray's my name Action's! my game.