Posted By
Hans
on 2013-02-27
09:17:56
|  Re: turbodos cartridges
Hi ruff,
As said before, freezers for the 264 range weren't really necessary because of the "freezing" feature as described by MIK: Just press Run/Stop + Reset Button and you're in the very heart of the machine. Working here needs, of course, some knowledge of the 6502 / 7501 Assembler language.
Speeders have been an invention within the C64 world. Besides of the poor C64 basic dialect 2.0 which was very "basic" itself, compared to Basic 3.5, the 1541 floppy was unbearable slow. The parallel 1551 had an average speed ratio of 1:3 compared to the 1541. Therefore, utility cartridges like e.g. "The Final Cartridge" were well known within the C64 community. They were able to speed up the lame C64/1541 a little, and provided also a reset button (which the bare C64 didn't provide).
There have been, of course, also cartridges been launched for the Plus/4 expansion port. Most of them provided applications such as Script/Plus, Calc/Plus, Financial Advisor, etc.
The first SD2IEC modules were developed for the C64 (We've got such for our machines as well). The SD2IEC made all datasettes and floppies obsolete.
Reg's,
Hans.
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