Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

There is the slot that the SIMM is actually in (should be slot 0) which is the 
physical slot, and obviously you can't have two SIMMs in one slot, and then 
there are the other slots which can be emulated or not depending on whether you 
have other ROMs you want to use [you can just emulate all the slots, but then 
everyone would start selling their excess SIMMs and the market would lose its 
bottom].

So you can use other SIMMs if you like. But the other reason for the DIP switch 
is that there are 7 ROM regions, and only four slots and you wouldn't otherwise 
be able to make use of all the FLASH (its quicker to flip a DIP switch than 
reprogram the SIMM). So you can have the SIMM programmed as you wish and make 
what use of it you like, but the option is there - you just don't have to use 
it. [I'm pretty sure that people will not buy the FLASH SIMM just for this 
feature ;-) ]






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From: Atom Smasher <atom@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, January 1, 2011 4:41:36 PM
Subject: Re: [xl7] FLASH SIMM update

  
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, woodsworth1 wrote:

> Examples:
>  virtuoso 2000 -> put the orch1 & orch2 ROMs in slots 2 & 3 and put the 
> FLASH SIMM in slot 0 and allow it to emulate slot 1 as well
>  xl7 -> put the extreme lead ROM in slot 1 and the FLASH SIMM in slot 0 
> with emulation of slots 2 & 3.
>  multiple FLASH SIMMs -> arrange them as you wantfollowing the rules, 
> but only the one in slot0 should emulte other slots...
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so each slot can be emulated independently...?

i would have thought that this would only use two DIP switches just to 
facilitate emulating consecutive slots:
0x00 - no emulation
0x01 - emulate slot 1
0x02 - emulate slot 1,2
0x03 - emulate slot 1,2,3

in any case, i'll probably just have it set up to emulate all four slots. 
my orbit-3 chassis is waiting for this.

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