Posted By
MMS
on 2020-06-21
19:33:48
 |  Re: New C16 SD Card driver
This project is really fantactic!
The easy handling is great, and the speed is also fantastic, looks like 8-10 KB/sec. Lightning fast!
700 files per folder is more than enough, I think.
The startup menu is great idea to able to load your game as quickly as if you use a game cartridge.
Also it is nice to have a built-in set of easily memorable commands.
It is like a real HDD for C16 C116 and Plus/4.
It is already a great storage device, just an extra idea:
BTW it would be great to able to use them from BASIC too. Even better, if the form would be the same as you call the kernal one. (eg. reroute the LOAD routine from original kernal addess to use, then first check your SD card for the file with the current folder, if nothing found then you pass the original call data to the original kernal one to check out the real or emulated floppy drives for the same filenames)
Why?
Because -the same way as in the SD2IEC based program "Legyél Te Is Burzsuj" some ppl could create games/programs can load parts (loading as PRGs), and this could happen really-really fast and not limited by the 160KB of the D64.
Like the pictures for an adventure game. The pictures would load within a blink of eye from your device, and the programmer should not limit himself to eg 15 pictures, just because of the capacity of the D64. (1581's D81 has more space, but in fact noone really owns it on this platform). The program, needs only one release, if someone uses your device, just need to copy the d64s' content into one SD folder, and would work in the same way as from D64 in real floppy, just much faster.
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