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Re: Software compatibility of Vortex RAM Expansion?

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Date 2013-01-16 11:21 +0100
From Karl-Stephan Werkmeister <kastwerk@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
Subject Re: Software compatibility of Vortex RAM Expansion?
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Bernhard Geier wrote:
> Am 18.12.2012 13:32, schrieb Karl-Stephan Werkmeister:
>> I wonder whether a Vortex RAM expansion card applied to a CPC464 is
>> software compatible to the CPC6128 "standard" ram.
>> Will software/games that require >=128K RAM run on such a CPC464 (if
>> BASIC incompatibilies are not involved)?
>> Is there an emulator emulating a Vortex RAM expansion card?
>> The ROM dumps are available but they are obviously not "hardware"
>> compatible to the CPC standard.
>
> No, the Vortex RAM expansion is neither compatible to CPC6128's RAM nor
> to any other RAM expansion. It can only be used with the |BOS commands
> or, afaik, in CP/M. I don't know if there's an emulator for it.
>

Thanks a lot, :-).

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Software compatibility of Vortex RAM Expansion? Karl-Stephan Werkmeister <kastwerk@web.de> - 2012-12-18 13:32 +0100
  Re: Software compatibility of Vortex RAM Expansion? Bernhard Geier <geierb@geierb.de> - 2012-12-21 11:54 +0100
    Re: Software compatibility of Vortex RAM Expansion? Karl-Stephan Werkmeister <kastwerk@web.de> - 2013-01-16 11:21 +0100

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