Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!ganymede!terre.DMI.USherb.CA!sd05 From: sd05@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Sylvain Tremblay / Eric Trepanier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Fastloads vs. JiffyDOS Message-ID: <1991Jan1.063247.18070@DMI.USherb.CA> Date: 1 Jan 91 06:32:47 GMT References: <1990Dec31.204111.24685@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Sender: usenet@DMI.USherb.CA (Pour courrier Usenet) Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec Lines: 70 Nntp-Posting-Host: terre.dmi.usherb.ca I read with much interest your article about the JiffyDos vs SS debate. I am considering sending in my v4 for a v5 upgrade, but there were a few things I was unsure of, for example, the ad I saw did mention that all copiers were REU compatibles, but I was wondering how one could use both together. I hadn't realized these two cartridges could be used simultaneously with a port extender gimmick. Now here are a few questions you might be able to answer: 1. You say that the REU/SS5 combination is possible via the skyles cartridge extender. However, it doesn't work on your system, right? Do you know what the specific problem is? Have you heard of someone who has been using the two cartridges succesfully? Can you give me the address where I can get this port extender? 2. The ad mentions a 2400BPS telecom program that is X/Y modem capable and has support for 40/80 column. Does it do VT100? And what does the 80 column screen look like? The usual 320x200 bitmap (slow) screen? And now, moving on to JiffyDos... >[stuff deleted] Also, SS's fastloader only works so >long as the program you load does not disable it. It is a fact that >cartridge fast loaders can VERY EASILY be disabled and knocked out, so >that any software that wants to can kill your fastloader and go back to >slow loading, usually inadvertently. With JDOS, there is NO SUCH THING >as slow loading. JDOS is always there, in ROM. It never gets in the >way, and it CANNOT BE DISABLED except by you, the user. It always loads >fast. Always. "NO SUCH THING AS SLOW LOADING", "IT CANNOT BE DISABLED", "IT ALWAYS LOADS FAST"... Hmmm. I have a hard time believing that. Programs that *don't* work with the SS4 usually hang up because they have their own (often weird) fast-loading routines, which get in conflict with the SS4. That's why only programs like Taito's games with their V-MAX loaders, and programs like GEOS usually don't work, or at least, disable the FAST LOADER's routines. Personnaly, I doubt that neither GEOS, or any other weird copy-protected fast-loading programs will boot up using the JiffyDos disk speed-up routines! Am I wrong about this? If not, what's the difference between a SS4 and a JiffyDos. > >I've written quite a bit here, so a summary is in order. > Indeed, but I like your opinions about the several products. You might convince me to actually go out and get a JiffyDos. Now, if I could only find a 20 or 40Mb HD for my C128 under 400$!!! >If you are still loading the old, slow way, you are NOT getting >the full use of your machine, and you are probably hating it right now. >Spend a few more dollars on your machine and you will start loving it >again. :) Couldn't agree with you more on that subject!!! >begin 644 .signature >G5&AI