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2022-08-13 16:13

DeeKay

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362

Small Filebrowser with fastloader for Pi1541

Hello all!
Since I'm using my Handheld 64 with Pi1541 and I am neither willing to JiffyDOS it nor have a utility cart plugged in at all times, I am wondering why nobody married the Pi1541 FB64 (the modded one from the Pi1541-homepage) with a fast and small software fastloader such as "25x Turbo" (25 X Turbo) to include that in the FB64 binary and run it just before loading whatever is chosen to load from FB64. There really is no need to use slooooow ROM loading a la SD2IEC when the Pi1541 can handle fast loaders, is there?

Now, while we're at it, adding a simple "N:Newdisk" DOS command feature to create and mount new .d64s right in FB64 (default behaviour when it's in SD2IEC mode!) would seem like a really useful addition, too, and maybe possibly delete and rename, too!...

Any takers here? ;-) I tried to convince a few people like Bitbreaker, GRG and FieserWolf to do it, but that didn't go anywhere because neither of them have a Pi1541....

P.S: "Dir Plus" from boray.se actually does the .d64 creation, rename and delete and even move on Pi1541, but unfortunately not the speedloader bit. Also it's like 100 blocks big, so utterly unuseable as an FB64 alternative!...

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2022-09-29 17:07

DeeKay

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362

Quote: Done!

Tjenks!

2022-09-29 19:57

Tom-Cat

Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 20

Deus ex machina disk change doesn't work when using JiffyDos ...

2022-10-05 17:51

DeeKay

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362

Quote: Deus ex machina disk change doesn't work when using JiffyDos ...

It does not work when using Pi1541, period! ;-) No matter what DOS you use!...