VIC20 Cart Image for VICE?
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 11:34 pm
Hi everyone.
I just started getting back to using the VIC-20 after being away from it for many years. I recently got one of those "TheC64" systems and enjoyed the C64 games that I was trying out again. Then I thought about the good ol' VIC-20 and wanted to get back to using that system as it has some great games and sadly was a system I never actually owned back in the 80s.
Anyhow, I have my collection of cart images and as most of you probably know, many of these cart images come in multiple files. What I wanted to know is if there is a way to create a single cartridge file that includes the multiple files for an individual game cart such as "dkong.20" & "dkong.a0" and perhaps a cfg file that tells VICE what RAM expansion settings to use (if any). This way it would require the loading/mounting of a single file instead of mounting/loading the 1st file, then again for the second file,etc.
I did some research tonight, but there wasn't any information that specifically seemed to answer my question. I found an old Lemon64 post that I made many many years ago (2004 maybe) but that was about launching multi file carts from disk which required a small start.prg file that acted as sort of a config file to load the first dkong.a0 file, then the dkong.20 file and finally a sys64802 to reboot the system and launch the game.
Anyhow, I'm not sure if after all these years someone may have designed a method for zipping or merging a cart's multiple files into a single file. Perhaps even something like a singe game flashcart image that lets you copy the dkong files to it and then mount it in VICE as a cart and launch the system. If anyone has any info please let me know. For now, I can continue to make filename.d64 images with the cart files and the start.prg file to run them, but disk loading is much slower than an instant cart launch.
Thanks
John
I just started getting back to using the VIC-20 after being away from it for many years. I recently got one of those "TheC64" systems and enjoyed the C64 games that I was trying out again. Then I thought about the good ol' VIC-20 and wanted to get back to using that system as it has some great games and sadly was a system I never actually owned back in the 80s.
Anyhow, I have my collection of cart images and as most of you probably know, many of these cart images come in multiple files. What I wanted to know is if there is a way to create a single cartridge file that includes the multiple files for an individual game cart such as "dkong.20" & "dkong.a0" and perhaps a cfg file that tells VICE what RAM expansion settings to use (if any). This way it would require the loading/mounting of a single file instead of mounting/loading the 1st file, then again for the second file,etc.
I did some research tonight, but there wasn't any information that specifically seemed to answer my question. I found an old Lemon64 post that I made many many years ago (2004 maybe) but that was about launching multi file carts from disk which required a small start.prg file that acted as sort of a config file to load the first dkong.a0 file, then the dkong.20 file and finally a sys64802 to reboot the system and launch the game.
Anyhow, I'm not sure if after all these years someone may have designed a method for zipping or merging a cart's multiple files into a single file. Perhaps even something like a singe game flashcart image that lets you copy the dkong files to it and then mount it in VICE as a cart and launch the system. If anyone has any info please let me know. For now, I can continue to make filename.d64 images with the cart files and the start.prg file to run them, but disk loading is much slower than an instant cart launch.
Thanks
John