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Port Save
Title:Port Save
Category:Utility/Disk
Release Date:
Language:English
Size:64K
Device Req.:1541 with Parallel cable
Machine:PAL & NTSC
Code Type:Machine code
Distribution:Freeware
Written by:Pigmy
Notes:Available in two versions: 6529 and 8255.
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Description
Provides turbo save operation for parallel cable modded 1541 drives. Requires User Port Floppy Parallel Cable connected to the User Port or to an 8255 Interface.

It consist of 2 parts, PS1 and PS2, both should be loaded from Monitor, assume that you're loading it when you already have something in the memory which you will want to save.
PS1 is using memory area $0600-$0774
PS2 is using memory area $fa00-$fcc7
Payload to save is restricted to not include these areas.
SYS 1536 sets the Save vectors.

SAVE"NAME",8 from BASIC or
S"NAME",8,xxxx,xxxx from MONITOR will use the turbo save. A block counter is shown as progress on the top left of the screen.

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