> 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.
When I was at Logo Computer Systems in Montreal, we modified the firmware (you could upload new code at boot) of the floppy drive to permit our application (Logo for C-64) to load much faster than it normally would (still using the same serial interface). Law of unintended consequences: it turned out that lots of schools would actually share a floppy drive (they were expensive) between multiple C-64's using some kind of cockamamie network. Needless to say our hack didn't work with it. I was the contact person for the schools and I heard about it frequently. Killed the product. On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- ===== Ian Garmaise Consultant Phorix Solutions Group [email protected] Skype: iantor Toronto cell: 416.432.2251 NYC: 917.512.9535 http://www.PhorixSol.com --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
