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From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace)
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Subject: Re: Fastload & download
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Date: 19 Mar 90 12:55:46 GMT
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In article <27982@cup.portal.com> Roger_Thornton_Williams@cup.portal.com writes:
>>baseball@ncar.ucar.edu writes:
>
>>About 1/3 of my software won't
|>load and/or run with Fastload.  I don't believe that there is a universal
|>solution to the slow loading problem of the 1541.
|
|I have both an Epyx Fastload and a CinemaWare Warp Speed cartridge.  Warp
|Speed is *much* more software compatible than Fastload.  And it works
|with Kermit 2.2.  I agree though that Warp Speed isn't a *universal*
|solution. (It doesn't work with my Q-Link disk for example).  But it
|does offer more compatibility than Fastload.
|
|Roger Williams
|Roger_Thornton_Williams@cup.portal.com
|
Maybe it's a difference in our selection of software, or the fact that I use a
128D w/ 1571 built in (and occasionally my 1541, as Defender of the Crown
doesn't work with my 1571) and you might be using a C-64, but WarpSpeed vs
FastLoad comes down to this:
WarpSpeed is invariably FASTER.
FastLoad is _MORE_ software compatible, and I have many _COMMERCIAL_ software
programs, so perhaps a full stock of PD programs on your side might account
for it. Of course I have a lot of PD stuff too, but If one cartridge doesn't
work with it, it's invariably WarpSpeed. If you want fast, try the fastloader
built into Pool of Radiance or Curse of The Azure Bonds.


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