> > Get an Atari drive instead. The interface of the C= drives is probably
> > just as well documented, but the drives were BUTT SLOW. The Atari drives
> > were factors faster.
>
> Commodore 1541 type drive are serial and have a tremendous
> amount of handshaking to the interface. It's just a matter
> of writting new interface routines. I've been able to transfer
> one byte across the interface in about 50 clock cycles (loading
> a 50K file in 12 to 13 seconds).
And it's possible to do better -- look at stuff like DolphinDOS. Even a
simple dual-bit method like Epyx FastLoad (where the ATN line [IIRC] is
used as a second data line) achieves at least 5x improvement. The hardware
is sound, the software sucked.
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Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 21:29:53 GMT