[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Simon Jonassen]

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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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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> (CoCoDemus)
> 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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