Checkered_Flagman Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Just an info I can't find anywhere: How long does an Atari XEGS takes to load an "average" game 5,25" floppy/diskette via XF551? Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Alot longer than an Apple II, but not NEARLY as long as a commodore 64.. maybe 20-30 seconds if you are talking about an average commercial game from a self-booting floppy. same speed as a stock 1050 drive does it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checkered_Flagman Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 Are there way to speed up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Zillions of ways. Check the faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checkered_Flagman Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 I know about SD or USB interfaces but I didn't find anything about speed up loading times using an originale XF551 or 1050 floppy drive, it's possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I know about SD or USB interfaces but I didn't find anything about speed up loading times using an originale XF551 or 1050 floppy drive, it's possible? Did you read the FAQ posted above? Go there and search for "speed" and read everything. Then to make sure you didn't miss anything, search for "1050" and read all that. There's a lot of info in there about the various ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I didn't find anything about speed up loading times using an originale XF551 or 1050 floppy drive Ah, original. You didn't mention that in the O.P. In short, no. The baudrate is about 19.200 baud and that's it. In theory it's possible to use a custom track layout on the disk but it's really not worthwhile. Another way is to crunch/pack files and decrunch/depack them after they're loaded. Because the file is shorter it speeds up loading time but execution of the code takes actually longer as depacking usually takes more time than loading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Original xf551 has some high speed sio too ... The only thing you need is a (game) dos that had HS driver for xf551. I know micro spartados from bewesoft has that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Original xf551 has some high speed sio too ... The only thing you need is a (game) dos that had HS driver for xf551. I know micro spartados from bewesoft has that. The stock XF551 firmware supports 2X(38K) SIO speed by formatting with an optional hi-speed sector skew only available in DSDD/360K, this is similar to how the US Doubler for the 1050 works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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