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Chris

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Feb 8, 2009, 4:57:46 PM2/8/09
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I have a 1581 fast loader that was from a magazine back in the day and
it is very effective. You can load a 200 block program in a few
seconds (like 5-7) but you have to have in memory obviously. The
solution I use is to make it the first file on each 3.5 disk and use
the load * to run it and then run the software I want.
Is there an easy way to put it on a cartridge? Or is there a fast
loader that supports a 1581 (besides Jiffy dos which I can't afford)?
Something like the epyx fast loader, only for the 1581?

Chris

Silver Dream !

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Feb 8, 2009, 5:04:43 PM2/8/09
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Chris wrote:

> [...] Or is there a fast


> loader that supports a 1581 (besides Jiffy dos which I can't afford)?
> Something like the epyx fast loader, only for the 1581?

Action Replay V or newer (don't remember if earlier versions too).

RobertB

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Feb 8, 2009, 7:38:37 PM2/8/09
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On Feb 8, 1:57 pm, Chris wrote:

> Something like the epyx fast loader, only for the 1581?

Warpspeed v2, Super Snapshot v3-v5.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
CommVEx v5 info - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX

rusure

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Feb 9, 2009, 6:17:00 AM2/9/09
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On Feb 8, 2:57 pm, Chris <chris...@notalotofunwanted.aol.com> wrote:
> I have a 1581 fast loader that was from a magazine back in the day and
> it is very effective. You can load a 200 block program in a few
> seconds (like 5-7) but you have to have in memory obviously.

Michael Miller (the Big Blue Reader guy) published a loading system
for both the 1571 and 1581 drives in the December issue of RUN
magazine. It worked on stock C64s and in C64 mode on a C128.

RUN disk images are available here:
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/magazines/

There was a COMPUTE GAZETTE program
around the same time for the 1581 only.

The users of the RUN program selected programs to be loaded from a
directory listing. I rewrote the program so that the C64 system would
revert to the RUN program when a LOAD command was issued. I went
through the bother because my disks had HUGE directories, the 1571
code had a virus, and the drive code resided in USR files rather than
in computer memory. After the program as published was used, 1571s
overwrote BAMs on disks when a specific series of disk commands were
issued. I added a drive initializing command to the program to fix
the problem.

I use the program infrequetly since I now have everything on a CMD
hard drive.

Six

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Feb 10, 2009, 9:38:11 PM2/10/09
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RobertB <rber...@value.net> wrote in news:37f60178-7ccc-4506-89c7-
612943...@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

>
> Warpspeed v2, Super Snapshot v3-v5.
>

Worth mentioning, Joe Palumbo still sells brand new Super Snapshot v5.22s

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