Posted By
MMS
on 2023-03-20
18:57:08
 |  Re: 1581 on plus 4
@siz: frankly speaking, I have an SD2IEC integrated into an 1541/II, also own one SD1541/II.
I really liked them due to the massive amount of the data they can store.
If you have JiffyDOS AND big storage (800KB is really huge compared to the 664 blocks) I do not mind if I need to keep some floppies (certainly I do not speak about 2GB content, like 2000 discs  )
On the other hand, creating a game for such a beast it a different level of game creation process.
-You should not look for disc size, if you want to add one or two extra images to your game.
-If you want to load a picture, it will load within seconds (1581 with Jiffy is even 50% faster than an 1541 with Jiffy)
-You can also forget swapping discs. If you still keep D64 format even witha Gotek, you still need to swap images
-So what we really need is the ACCEPTANCE of D81 as a format for our platform.
-as you know, I really liked my SFD1001 till it worked (but there was no way to make it faster than an 1541 on out platform), so I was really fond of the 1MB disc size, even without subdirectories, haha
a looong, looong directory
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