> > (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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