Multi-Loaders, how did they work and how do you write one?

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Re: Multi-Loaders, how did they work and how do you write one?

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Seven.FFF wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:49 pmYou'd usually only bother with a custom fastloader if you were doing a boutique cassette release, and you wanted to cut down on loading time.
I disagree. There are quite a few people around (including myself) who load data into their Spectrums by "reading" the files on a PC through Tapir or a similar program and redirecting the sound output to real hardware. Custom loaders are really useful in such a situation. For this reason I always release my software as TZX turbo tape image files as well. I even developed my own custom turbo loader for that!
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Yes, true :)
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