• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    ROM Cartridges like that were also basically as fast as RAM, and mapped into system memory, so you could reference things directly instead of having to load things to RAM first like off a disc

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      5 months ago

      Yes yes! But wasn’t there some limit, like if you had a 1Mbit cartridge you still had to shuffle the data around? Or was it just a penalty to map a different chunk of memory?

      My memory is sure not that fast or reliable:-)