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From: rmariani@watnot.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: The EPYX FastLoad Cartridge
Message-ID: <11302@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 11:22:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: watnot.11302
Posted: Mon Jul 22 11:22:15 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jul-85 21:21:46 EDT
References: <329@isucs1.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmariani@watnot.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <329@isucs1.UUCP> jobusch@isucs1.UUCP writes:
>Concerning the EPYX FastLoad cartridge...
>
>Has anyone out there experienced problems with this little piece
>of crud? So far, I have destroyed 3 disks of data (retrievable,
>fortunately) and have encountered problems with my printer while
>the FastLoad cartridge was active.
>

I've been using FastLoad since it first became available and I've
*never* had *any* problems with it.  I use it with various games
and wordprocessors (mainly PaperClip).  I use a TEO printer with
a CARDCO interface and access that without hangups.  My modem works
fine too.

>Apparently, the thing likes to occasionally scramble sector 18,0
>and 18,1 (just directory info..!) when you write to disk. Also,
>my MPS802 printer (no snickers, please) refuses to print when
>the cartridge is in.

Apparanty *very* early versions (i.e. before it was available to me)
of the FastLoad cartridge did not "save" correctly.  This could be
the problem you are complaining about.

>...Also, did you know there is a machine monitor (ala Supermon,
>Micromon, etc...) on the Cartridge. You access it by entering
>a '%' <cr>.

Anyone who's read the manual knows about the monitor (I hope) but it's
more like the monitor in the APPLE computer than Supermon or Micromon.
I wish it was Supermon or even TIM.

	-Rico

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