27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
10:21 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:11:02PM -0400, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca 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