Feature Request: 16MB RamWorks + RamFactor cards #48
Description
I was considering filing this upstream as a MAME feature request but it might be worth "prototyping" in Ample.
Both the RamWorks (IIe aux slot) and RamFactor (Slinky-style) memory expansions max out at 8MB in MAME. This is the maximum that vintage hardware supported.
Some modern hardware pushes this to 16MB - notably https://garrettsworkshop.com/ GR8RAM and RAM2EII - although both products document this experimental as not all vintage software would accommodate this.
Since you're already playing with additional cards in Ample (A2RetroNet - haven't noticed any issues so far!) is supporting additional configurations of the RamFactor and RamWorks cards plausible?
A MAME patch would probably be similar to the delta between the ext80 and rw3 cards (for RamWorks) and memexp and ramfactor cards (for RamFactor), perhaps just additional devices like rw3-16m and ramfactor16m or something.
"Why?" - well I can do this in real hardware with the GW devices, but emulation is more convenient, and I want to test edge cases when you can stick more than 64MB of RAM in a IIe. (e.g. 16MB Aux, 16MB Slinky in slots 1,4,5,6, mouse in slot 2 and A2RetroNet in slot 7)