On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:11:02PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Of the C64 floppy disk drive it was said 'Loads programs faster than you > can type them in...but only just.' > > Apparently there was some sort of handshaking bug that prevented the drive > from running at full speed, and so they crippled it with a delay loop > somewhere.
I have seen alternate floppy interfaces for the C64 which loaded a LOT faster than the stock serial interface. The drives were capable of much more than the serial interface they used. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
