> > > > (For those not in the know, the Commodore Indus GT drive has a
> > > > drive 1 [LOAD"$1",8] with DOS Wedge, a fast loader and some other
> > > > utilities permanently in drive ROM that can
> > > > just be loaded out of the drive instantaneously.)
>
> That's interesting. I did not know that. Are there any details
> published anywhere about how they did it? How large is the "ROM
> Disk"? Does it work by having an emulated filesystem, or does
> it "cheat"? I wonder how hard it would be to slap some ROM on the
> side of a 1541 and add "unit 1 support" (and I wonder if that would
> fix or aggravate the save-and-replace bug).
I strongly think it cheats. It does have what looks like a real filesystem,
but I doubt the illusion goes further than skin-deep :-)
It is one of the GT's most interesting features, but since it works just
fine with Epyx FastLoad, I don't use it often. More to the point, the GT's
in-ROM fast loader doesn't work with any other drive but a GT, and most
utility cartridges have some kind of DOS wedge, so the files aren't called
for much now. Still a neat idea.
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