Final Cartridge

Final Cartridge Screenshots
Technical Info
ROM	TFC/FC2: 16 kbyte FC+: 24 kbyte FC3: 64 kbyte
RAM	None
Hardware features	TFC/FC2/FC+: 1 Button Freeze 1 Switch On/Off FC3: 1 Button Freeze 1 Button Reset
Manual	PDF: XX pages PDF: XX pages PDF: XX pages PDF: XX pages PDF: XX pages PDF: XX pages
CRT ID	TFC/FC2/FC+: 13 FC3: 35
Programming	See Tech Section

Work is still in progress here!

The Final Cartridge and its successor, the very popular Final Cartridge III,

fuck, this is going to be long ...

Wonder where this is coming from: vice?

- here is another doc: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/documents/chipdata/Final%20Cartridge%20III%20Internals.txt (equally wrong)

   The Final Cartridge 1 + 2

   - any access to IO1 turns cartridge ROM off
   - any access to IO2 turns cartridge ROM on

   The Final Cartridge 3

   - 4 16K ROM Banks at $8000/$a000 (=64K)

        Bank 0:  BASIC, Monitor, Disk-Turbo
        Bank 1:  Notepad, BASIC (Menu Bar)
        Bank 2:  Desktop, Freezer/Print
        Bank 3:  Freezer, Compression

   - the cartridges uses the entire io1 and io2 range

   - one register at $DFFF:

    7      Hide this register (1 = hidden)
    6      NMI line   (0 = low = active) *1)
    5      GAME line  (0 = low = active) *2)
    4      EXROM line (0 = low = active)
    2-3    unassigned (usually set to 0)
    0-1    number of bank to show at $8000

    1) if either the freezer button is pressed, or bit 6 is 0, then
       an NMI is generated

    2) if the freezer button is pressed, GAME is also forced low

    - the rest of io1/io2 contain a mirror of the last 2 pages of the
      currently selected rom bank (also at $dfff, contrary to what some
      other documents say)

Weblinks

• http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/cartridge/final_cartridge
• http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/cartridge/final_cartridge_3
• http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/cartridge/final_cartridge_internal
• http://home.datacomm.ch/fmeyer/c64/fc3.html
• http://web.tiscali.it/c64commodore/ clone images
• http://www.c64-online.com/phpbb/downloads.php?df_id=282&view=detail another german fc3 manual
• http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Final_Cartridge_3 german
• http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Final_Cartridge_3 english
• http://everything2.com/title/The+Final+Cartridge+III
• http://www.nightfallcrew.com/?p=1338
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cartridge_3 german wikipedia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cartridge_III english wikipedia