[Coco] High(Er) speed cassette loading.

Ciaran Anscomb cocomalt at 6809.org.uk
Thu Dec 31 02:59:12 EST 2020


Dave Philipsen wrote:
> I think with a higher quality recording device and media it could be
> quite a bit faster. In reality, a floppy disk bears some similarity to
> the way data is stored on a cassette tape. The cassette tape deck is an
> inexpensive device that is not specifically built for the purpose of
> storing digital data on tape.

If you ditch the "storable on tape" requirement, and sadly probably
also the "coco is able to generate the signal" bit too, then Mysoft from
IRC did this some while ago:

https://github.com/MyTDT-Mysoft/COCO-FastLoader

I used it to speed up testing cycles and it worked a treat.

..ciaran


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