Cartridge *software* for A500... Possible?

[ReadOnlyCat]

Akira, this kitten loves you.
I have no time now to expand on that topic now but there are a gazillions things to say about it!

Will pounce back as soon as I can.

[kremiso]

thanks for this thread, a lot interesting infos

imo strange that none software house have considered this possibility back in the day, games talking

i mean, at least one single game, like extra copy protected

[AestheticDebris]

Originally Posted by kremiso

imo strange that none software house have considered this possibility back in the day, games talking

i mean, at least one single game, like extra copy protected

I imagine a lot of them saw the same thing tried on the 8-bit machines (Imagine's MegaGames and Shadow of the Unicorn on the Spectrum for example) and how badly that worked out. Developing a whole cartridge mechanism from scratch probably wasn't worth the cost, even if it cut down on piracy.

[kremiso]

the production cost aspect could be interested to try to investigate

as final (on sales) price, maybe inbetween a trapdoor expansion and a freezer cartridge (there were some extra cheap models)?

maybe, if the A500 had been the first model released, i mean without the A1000, someone would have considered the crazy idea

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by kremiso

the production cost aspect could be interested to try to investigate

as final (on sales) price, maybe inbetween a trapdoor expansion and a freezer cartridge (there were some extra cheap models)?

maybe, if the A500 had been the first model released, i mean without the A1000, someone would have considered the crazy idea

System 3 were going to release Amiga cartridge games, i’m not sure what point they got to in that regard, but Silly Putty was supposedly going to be one of them, 2MB carts at £35.

More info below

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80802

[TCD]

I was going to ask for a source and then I found this thread: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80802

Really interesting

[kremiso]

def another interesting thread in regard

i suppose the 2 megabit (Mb) written in that article is an error, as the final game was in 3 disks;
2MB sounds as the correct value

^EDIT it is written correctly down in the article, 2 megabytes^

that game didn't support the extra drives, maybe the cartridge option was taken in consideration also to avoid loadings and diskswaps

[pandy71]

Something similar https://github.com/cnvogelg/romdisk - not sure but perhaps it can be done as some ROM banking to simulate larger floppy?

[Retro1234]

The Action Replay has a disk copier like X-Copy but better called Burst Nibbler.
This is basically software on a cartridge.