Posted By
bubis
on 2017-04-28
06:26:28
|  Re: IRQ-loaders for the Plus4?
Hi,
I also became interested in an IRQ loaders recently since I am planning a trackmo. (Question of years, don't get too excited.) I managed to compile Krill's loader for plus4 (it dominated the C64 demoscene for years) but also looked into other modern loaders.
The result of this is a working port of Bitbeaker's Bitfire loader (alfa), it's a project of me and BSZ/NST. We will release it when it's in beta. We may also add 1551 support to it later. The resident part of this loader is <$200 at the moment with all major features enabled (load raw, load + decomp).
We are thinking about porting LFT's Spindle 2 as well. (Maybe we should have started with porting that one first, as it has a pretty cool linking framework too.) We think that a 1551 port of that loader would be super fast on plus4 as it does the depacking in the drive and the 1551's cpu is much faster and transfer is super fast too.
Stay tuned!
Regards,
Andras
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