Egyre impresszívebb hardver fejlesztések látnak napvilágot az öreg gépekre, ez alól a VIC20 sem kivétel. A GCart nagyon komoly alkatrészeket állít csatasorba a retro rajongók kedvéért aminek meg is van az eredménye. A project honlapján megtalálható a kapcsolás, a nyák terve, egyszóval minden, a lustábbak kedvéért idemásolom a kicsike paramétereit, változatlan formában:
# 64k – 1024k SRAM. No Flash. With the usual banking, write protect, individual enable/disable. All banks including 3k.
# 8k Kernal, Diskmanagement, Basic extensions with fullscreen editor.
# A specific block can be mapped during NMI assertion. This is used to call up the main menu and monitor … among other things.
# Up to 32GB SD managed by a co-processor. It will load data as fast as
the VIC can receive them. D64 support and ordinary files. TAP support
would be cool perhaps? Little of on how to handle the UI with this mix
though.
# Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc. Can play directly
from disk … which is probably the only viable option anyway.
# RTC with battery backup.
# WiFi. FTP to the SD card. NTP client (which nearly defeats the purpose
of backed up RTC). Kernel will understand URI sort off. As in …
# 8k Kernal, Diskmanagement, Basic extensions with fullscreen editor.
# A specific block can be mapped during NMI assertion. This is used to call up the main menu and monitor … among other things.
# Up to 32GB SD managed by a co-processor. It will load data as fast as
the VIC can receive them. D64 support and ordinary files. TAP support
would be cool perhaps? Little of on how to handle the UI with this mix
though.
# Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc. Can play directly
from disk … which is probably the only viable option anyway.
# RTC with battery backup.
# WiFi. FTP to the SD card. NTP client (which nearly defeats the purpose
of backed up RTC). Kernel will understand URI sort off. As in …
