Is Jiffydos that much better than a fastload cart?
The Hairy Beast
I have a nice little set up... a 512k Reu, a 1581, and 3 1541-II drives..
and a C-64C with the speedy 1670 modem... I love it, But I don't love having
to swap out the reu for the fastload, I tried a multicart adapter, but it
wont work with them both...I also don't love the fact that the epyx fastload
isn't compatible with the 1581 drive... It would be Soooooo nice if it was.
anyway, I looked into options for speeding up my drives... jiffydos seems to
have it all.. but at a price!.. It it really the best for the buck? or
would a final cart 3 be better? Is it the fastest? and the most
compatible... What is the fastest and most compatible?
I have found my epyx fastload to be a very nice add-on, with a few major
flaws. no 1571/1581 support.. and some software conflicts that make putting
in and pulling out the unit a common thing.
thanks
in advance...
p.s. I'm still looking for the norad terminal joke program.. it fakes you
into thinking its called norad, and then no matter what you do it makes you
think its launched its missles.... downloaded off Q-link way back in
1987-89.. was shareware or freeware I think..
Commodore Addict
all drives, very fast, speed ups all disk access, not just loads and saves.
Get it, you won't be sorry.
You can get it from here: http://www.cmdrkey.com
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Christian Link
<Emor...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>anyway, I looked into options for speeding up my drives... jiffydos seems to
>have it all.. but at a price!.. It it really the best for the buck? or
>would a final cart 3 be better? Is it the fastest? and the most
>compatible... What is the fastest and most compatible?
I think JiffyDOS really is the best out there, especially if you don't
want to go for one of these RAM-expanded parallel beasts like
DolphinDOS etc. It's damn fast for a serial kernalspeeder (even faster
than a couple parallel ones!), and very compatible. Worth every cent,
I'm sure!
The FC3, however, is a good allround solution, but isn't really that
fast, and not nearly as compatible. On the other hand, you get a
couple additional features the FC3 doesn't offer. Still, JiffyDOS plus
an optional Action/RetroReplay is a better solution than the FC3
alone, that's for sure.
> I have found my epyx fastload to be a very nice add-on, with a few major
>flaws. no 1571/1581 support.. and some software conflicts that make putting
>in and pulling out the unit a common thing.
Ha, Cameron, take that :-) !
(Now he will probably come up with the FastLoad's disk monitor ;-)))
...)
Greetings,
Chris.
Cameron Kaiser
>>I have found my epyx fastload to be a very nice add-on, with a few major
>>flaws. no 1571/1581 support.. and some software conflicts that make putting
>>in and pulling out the unit a common thing.
>Ha, Cameron, take that :-) !
Dunno what he's running, but this certainly hasn't been my experience.
Granted, I tend to run my own software and a few games.
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mykrowyre
name of the program?
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Paul Rosenzweig
> anyway, I looked into options for speeding up my drives... jiffydos
> seems to have it all.. but at a price!.. It it really the best for
> the buck? or would a final cart 3 be better? Is it the fastest? and
> the most compatible... What is the fastest and most compatible?
If you are planning on upgrading your system with either a RAMLink, or a
SUPERCpu or both, then you should know that these add ons come with JD's
onboard. Furthermore, when you add these items to your system, the use
of their JD's require that you switch out the JD thats installed inside
the computer. I am saying that a JD inside your system, an RL and an
SCPU would have JD redundancy. Some would say that it would be cheaper
in the long run to upgrade to an RL and / or an SCPU and bypass the JD
installed in your C64C. There are at least two motherboard designs for
the C64C. Furthermore, as an economy measure, one of these C64C had the
original ROM chip installed without a socket. I have one of these C64C's
and the JD for it. I don't have the the manual dexterity to unsolder the
original C64C ROM and install a socket and the JD C64C replacement ROM.
The JD's in the SCPU and RL's install by plugging either cartridge into
the cartridge port. Manual dexterity is not required for these JD options.
The disadvantage to the RL / SCPU JD route is the larger initial cost.
If I haven't turned you off the motherboard JD replacement ROM, I have
a JD chip replacement ROM for one C64C model. In addition, I have a JD
replacement ROM chip for a 1541 and a JD replacement ROM for a 1571.
The C64C and 1541 ROMS come with installtion manuals. The original 1571
ROM is easily replaced by the JD chip without an installation manual.
I also have a JD user's manual that is bundled with the C64C JD chip.
You can contact me as follows:
EMAIL : r_u_...@mybluelight.com
PHONE : 970 221 2358
REGULAR ADDRESS : Paul Rosenzweig
420 South Loomis Avenure, Basement
Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
USA
Neo-Rio
Ramlink in your C64 - if at any time you want to switch them out, you'll
lose their JiffyDOS too. The only way to prevent that is to have a JD chip
wired directly to the motherboard of your C64.
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Overdoc
The Hairy Beast schrieb in Nachricht ...
> It it really the best for the buck? or
>would a final cart 3 be better? Is it the fastest? and the most
>compatible... What is the fastest and most compatible?
>
One big advantage of onboard speeders in both C64 & drive over cartridges is
that they always keep the speed, while cartridges don't. At least this is
the experience I have made over the years.....
I don't know if the reason is that cartridges only support normal load
routines and e.g. no sequential file loading routines, or if the reason is
that cartridges copy the fastloader into the drive's ram where it can be
overwritten in some cases ?
Another advantage is that Jiffy will work with all kind of drives, 1541,
1571 and 1581 if you get the right chip for your drive :)
Also, if you are planning to use some CMD products then Jiffy has some
features supporting these.
Reini
Paul Rosenzweig
> I would also like to mention that even though you may have a SuperCPU
> or Ramlink in your C64 - if at any time you want to switch them
> out, you'll lose their JiffyDOS too. The only way to prevent that
> is to have a JD chip wired directly to the motherboard of your C64.
Thanks for pointing that out. I now know that there are
valid reasons for the thread orignator to purchase my JD
merchandise even if he plans to purchase an SCPU or RL.
I have never needed to switch out my RL and needed an active JD.
There are times when I would like access to the data in my RL but
would like to switch out JD. Anybody here know how to switch out
the RL JD without deactivating the RL as well? So far, the only
way I can access the RL data is to copy the data to a real disk.
Matthew W. Miller
<Emor...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> p.s. I'm still looking for the norad terminal joke program.. it fakes
> you into thinking its called norad, and then no matter what you do it
> makes you think its launched its missles.... downloaded off Q-link
> way back in 1987-89.. was shareware or freeware I think..
Let's see. I know of two for the C128 in 80 columns.
One is called "norad.hello", pretended to be a terminal program
called Appsterm-80, and was completely noninteractive once it
'connected'.
The other one's name escapes me, but it pretends to connect to a
GEnie-esque service called Telecom XIII which had some semi-interactive
menus and a not-so-hidden gateway to the feds. I'm positive I have the
first one lying around 'somewhere', not so sure about the second-- I'll
look.
What luck! My 1571 drive is suffering from the can't-read-second-sides
blues, but "norad.helo" was entirely on the first side of one disk. Up
it goes in comp.binaries.cbm if the moderator doesn't protest. Still
can't find 'Telecom XIII'-- it's probably on a second side. Rats!
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Matthew W. Miller -- mwmi...@columbus.rr.com
Matthew W. Miller
> you into thinking its called norad, and then no matter what you do it
> makes you think its launched its missles.... downloaded off Q-link
> way back in 1987-89.. was shareware or freeware I think..
Let's see. I know of two for the C128 in 80 columns.
Len Pitre
>Let's see. I know of two for the C128 in 80 columns.
> One is called "norad.hello", pretended to be a terminal program
>called Appsterm-80, and was completely noninteractive once it
>'connected'.
:) There was a cheap and unconvincing (to everyone but a newbie) one in a
fakeout-C64-startup-screen collection called Maximum Overdrive, from one of
the old Compute! disks.
Len
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