Computer control device for use with a TV game machine allowing BIOS program execution from TV game processor address space
US5701478A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 4, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 23, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 4, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4411
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A computer control device including a TV game machine (for example: SEGA 16 Bit vedio game Mega Drive/Genesis), and a computer control main unit connected to the card slot on the TV game machine, wherein the computer control main unit has a first ASIC, a second ASIC and a plurality of interface circuits respectively connected to peripheral equipment (such as MODEM, CD-ROM, printer, etc.), SRAM, DRAM and ROM to use the signal from the card slot on the TV game machine and to decode the address using the first ASIC, permitting the BIOS program in the ROM to be loaded onto a free address space in the TV game machine and permitting the internal program of the TV game machine to jump to the address space to execute the BIOS program.
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