Action Replay

[motorollin]

I read that an Action Replay cartridge connects to the Amiga's Zorro bus. However, the only versions I can find either connect to an A2000 CPU slot or the Zorro expansion on the side of an A500. Is there any version which would work with an A4000?

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moto

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*bump*

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moto

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So some kind of A500 expansion -> Zorro slot converter is required. Jens? :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Have found the Zorro II/III pinout here but I can't find the A500 expansion port pinout anywhere. Anyone know where I could find it?

I assume a converter would be as simple as connecting the pins from the A500 expansion side to the corresponding pins on the Zorro connector side. Or would there need to be some logic in between?

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moto

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@Donar
You're right! It's here. I'll have a look at it. Anyone every used it? Does it really work? I don't see how a piece of software could work as well as a piece of hardware connected directly to the CPU bus (like the AR). Surely if the game turns off multitasking then the software would not be able to interrupt it?

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm looks like there is also HRTMon. In the readme it says "You can invoke the monitor at any point. Even if a game or a demo switched off the interrupts."

How does this work?!

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moto

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Piru wrote:
With a hardware switch connected to NMI, obviously.

Obviously. Thanks for pointing out my idiocy.

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moto

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Also, the HRTMon docs say that you can freeze the game and enter HRTMon using the right mouse button if you don't want to add the "level7 button". So the answer to the question "how does this work" is not quite as obvious as you claim.

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moto

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Oh ok. Well it looks like a software solution is the way forward then. I'll give HRTMon a try when I have time.

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moto