Behr-Bonz 2015

[eslapion]

4 units left!

[eslapion]

3 units left!

[eslapion]

Another unit sold to warkopz

2 units left!

[eslapion]

Presently SOLD OUT!

There may be another batch if there is enough people asking for it.

[eslapion]

One very last Behr-Bonz !

I forgot I had one left in stock. It's one I used for testing different EPROM software configurations. It is perfectly functional and identical to all the other ones except for ONE thing, the EPROM is on a socket.

Who's going to be the lucky person to get the very last Behr-Bonz ?

[joshuadenmark]

Interested, pm sent.

[eslapion]

Interested, pm sent.

Last unit is presently reserved for joshuadenmark.

Awaiting payment.

[joshuadenmark]

Thanks, will pay you first thing tomorrow when my head (hopefully) is cleared from fermented grapes

[joshuadenmark]

In 50 years I will sell it as a "prototype" on Ebay, and become a millionaire

[eslapion]

In 50 years I will sell it as a "prototype" on Ebay, and become a millionaire

You know... I still have the handmade version of the Behr-Bonz which was presented to the public in december 2007...


That's the very first working Behr-Bonz multicart. Only a few small mods were needed for all games to work properly.

It still works perfectly well... how's that for a rarity ?

[joshuadenmark]

That's nifty

[mrr19121970]

I recommended Behr-Bonz to a few people, of course they are now sold out. @eslapion might be considering a new run. What would we like to see here for a new version?

Some ideas:

• Improved menu. Instead of pressing 1-8 to jump to page and then A-Q, press the starting letter of a game and then 1 through pound and F1-F7 to represent the start game
  more ROMs (diagnosis carts)
  PAL/NTSC switch
  Reset switch
  Jump straight to basic
  37kb expansion
  Start CBM file browser or Boray's browser with SJLOAD installed
  SD card reader for adding new games (or USB or flash memory)

[eslapion]

• Improved menu. Instead of pressing 1-8 to jump to page and then A-Q, press the starting letter of a game and then 1 through pound and F1-F7 to represent the start game - That's a request for e5frog as I didn't make the menu but jumping directly to any of 127 games with 2 keypresses is neat; there are only 26 letters in the alphabet.
  
  more ROMs (diagnosis carts) - The EPROM is full already! I can change ROMs to your liking but I can't add more
  
  PAL/NTSC switch - Possible but I would have to piggyback a pair of 27C160 on top of one another. The larger EPROM in this family (27C322) doesn't support 8 bit mode
  
  Reset switch - already included!!
  
  Jump straight to basic - already included!! Just choose a Scott Adams game
  
  37kb expansion - Not possible, bus conflict! The Behr-Bonz occupies BLK1,2,3 and 5
  
  Start CBM file browser or Boray's browser with SJLOAD installed - If this is available as autostart in BLK5 then it's easy to replace a game you don't like with this
  
  SD card reader for adding new games (or USB or flash memory) - Whoa!! This cart is called Behr-Bonz (bare bones) for a reason!! Even the Ultimem doesn't offer that!

[eslapion]

After a bit of investigation, it may be possible to double the capacity of the Behr-Bonz using a 29F032 flash memory chip.

This would make it a 254 games/utilities cart.

[akator]

After a bit of investigation, it may be possible to double the capacity of the Behr-Bonz using a 29F032 flash memory chip.

This would make it a 254 games/utilities cart.

I'll buy one

Any ideas what titles you would fill the extra slots with?