[Coco] more 1 bit madness

Simon Jonassen simon at roust-it.dk
Wed Jan 22 14:21:25 EST 2014


I have one of those 1541's that connect to the user port.... (parallel
transfer)....

/Simon :-)
 

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Emne: Re: [Coco] more 1 bit madness

I use the 1541 Ultimate 2. It's nice and can load through DMA.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Simon Jonassen <simon at roust-it.dk> wrote:
> 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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>
> 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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>>
>> 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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>>> 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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