Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Data storage or retrieval
Patent
1993-12-28
1997-05-27
Harrison, Jessica J.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Data storage or retrieval
A63F 922
Patent
active
RE0355208
ABSTRACT:
An interfacing device for connecting the processing unit of a computer games system to an external data storage medium has a user-operable selection unit for generating a user-selected address and user-selected data. The user-operable selection unit may comprise user-operable switches or electronic latches that are set by a program in response to selections made by the user by means of a joystick, keypad or any other input device. An address comparison unit compares the user-selected address with the addresses from the processing unit, and a data switching device causes the user-selected data to be substituted for data in the storage medium whenever the compared addresses are the same. Instead of a user-operable selection unit, preselected addresses and preselected data may be stored in a ROM, which in one embodiment changes the way the computer interprets external memory and in another changes the computer's internal memory itself.
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Carron Edward A.
Darling David
Darling Richard
Codemasters Software Company Limited
Harrison Jessica J.
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