5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
5:47 a.m.
True. The Atari drives had internal rom mods to speed them up from
19.2kbps to 38.4, 54.4, and 108kbps. Made by ICD, CSS, and Happy among
others. They used interleaving for the most part except for the Happy
which buffered an entire track at a time. You could read an entire 92k
floppy in something like 10 seconds.
Regards,
Jeff
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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Jeffrey S. Worley
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