>I'm trying to keep the total price of my system below that of a gameboy,
>and the TV daughterboard below the price of the parallax version. With
>the 18F price would go up $1.10 and power consumption 1.6mA (less than I
>thought). However, the EEPROM issue would still exist.

I think you need to be more specific about what you are writing to EEPROM.
It strikes me that you should have copied the EEPROM contents to RAM, and
accessing that. If you are using the EEPROM as your character generator, why
are you writing to it on the fly?????

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