[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Simon Jonassen]

Dammit... 

I've already defected from the c64 world to the COCO.....

C64 Ocean "fast" loader took maybe 4 mins to load a game... 

/Simon :-)


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Sendt: 22. januar 2014 20:19
Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Emne: Re: [Coco] more 1 bit madness

the c64 cassette is even worse... it takes 30-40 min to load a game...
one must have had plenty of time to play several games...


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Simon Jonassen <simon at roust-it.dk> wrote:
> Hehe...
>
> Yes the coco tape was faster.... Agreed....
>
> You can't tell me that todays techniques were not available back in 
> the day.... (they just were not thought up).....
>
> /Simon ;-)
>
>
>
>
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> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På vegne af Luis Antoniosi 
> (CoCoDemus)
> Sendt: 22. januar 2014 20:06
> Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Emne: Re: [Coco] more 1 bit madness
>
> The coco cassette is faster than the freaking out of the box 1541. You 
> had to invest in an EPYX fast loader or a even more expensive mod 
> jiffy-dos to have better speeds.
>
> The demos from 2013 doesn't count. This technique wasn't available 
> back in 1984...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Simon Jonassen <simon at roust-it.dk> wrote:
>> Luis...
>>
>> If you did a load "*",8,1 to get a dir you would be stuffed...
>>
>> It would load the first executable on the disk instead....
>>
>> If you used load "$",8, then LIST.... You would get the directory....
>>
>>
>> /Simon :-)
>>
>>
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>> Sendt: 22. januar 2014 19:51
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>> Emne: Re: [Coco] more 1 bit madness
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Nick Marentes 
>> <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>> LOAD"*",8,1  to get a disk directory sux in comparison to DIR.
>>
>>
>> you forgot the LIST, the directory actually was a basic commented
> program...
>>
>>
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