How Do Tape Accelerators Work?
How Do Tape Accelerators Work?
I remember seeing plenty of ads for carts and programs to accelerate the tape drive for the Vic. How do they work? I don't get it.
I'd say that they work something like the Turbo Tape programs for the C64...
I'm not an techie-expert on this but...
They all play around with the signal to the taperecorder. Using "shorter" signals for 1 and 0 than the original. Then they alter some of code in reading from tape and process the signals to handle this.
Well, someone else must have a better explanation, but this I think is the concept behind it.
// Zee
I'm not an techie-expert on this but...
They all play around with the signal to the taperecorder. Using "shorter" signals for 1 and 0 than the original. Then they alter some of code in reading from tape and process the signals to handle this.
Well, someone else must have a better explanation, but this I think is the concept behind it.
// Zee
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I believe Turbo Tape 64 was invented in 1983, and other turbo loaders (Jeff Minter/Llamasoft used one, Ian Gray/Interceptor Micros used another) were of the same date. The VIC still was around in 1983, but maybe starting to fade a little. Also, even expanded VIC games load within 16K or less, so the loading times of half an hour were not as important to cure as on a bigger machine.
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Half an hour? Doesn't 16k load in about 5-6 minutes without turbo? Or maybe that was your point?
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