How to run Super Expander in WinVICE?

[20questions]

damn. by the way, i'm trying to get the super expander to run on winvice. Where does it reside in memory, which sys do i use? also, 7 zip can't open the prg file from zimmers

(mod: OT in original thread split off into own topic here)

[Mike]

The cartridge dump of SE on zimmers is uncompressed. Nothing for 7zip to work with.

In VICE, enable a +3K RAM expansion (Settings > VIC20 settings ...: 3K (block 0) and press OK), then attach the *.prg file as cartridge (File > Attach cartridge image ... > Generic image: select "Super Expander.prg" in the file requester and press OK).

The emulated VIC-20 auto-resets and starts up with 6519 BYTES FREE. Super Expander is active.

[20questions]

The cartridge dump of SE on zimmers is uncompressed. Nothing for 7zip to work with.

In VICE, enable a +3K RAM expansion (Settings > VIC20 settings ...: 3K (block 0) and press OK), then attach the *.prg file as cartridge (File > Attach cartridge image ... > Generic image: select "Super Expander.prg" in the file requester and press OK).

The emulated VIC-20 auto-resets and starts up with 6519 BYTES FREE. Super Expander is active.

thanks this is some powerful software and i'm glad to be using it. it's sad that commodore never produced it in mass numbers

[srowe]

Or if you prefer using the command line

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xvic -memory 3k -cartA VIC-1211A-SuperExpander.A0

In this case you create a ROM image by stripping the first two bytes off a PRG file.