[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

[Mark Marlette]

Reads a meg of data RAW. point to the disk and it just reads data and counts bytes.

Bob D. should be able to explain it much better....

load time megaread
time;megaread /dd;time

What is returned are two timestamps, delta yields megaread time.

Mark
Cloud-9


----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 9:47:56 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:24:22PM +0000, Mark Marlette wrote:
> 
> I don't recall the exact values but SCSI was about twice as fast as IDE.
> 
> Megaread times for TC^3 were ~11-12 seconds and 19-20seconds for IDE.

At the risk of being branded a heretic or an ignoramous...what exactly
does Megaread do?  Simply read a megabyte of data?  Or something
more complex?

It definitely seems like there are either serious resolution and/or
frame rate limitations or a need for some serious cleverness to get
something working...

John
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