Novel Microdrive loading/saving techniques.

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Nomad
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Novel Microdrive loading/saving techniques.

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Figured it was good to share...

Its in BASIC but you can apply what he is doing to assembly with probably a much greater impact.

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Its stuff like this that keeps me trawling through the mags, every once in a while there is something really interesting. Ok he was violating the microdrive variables map and buffer to reduce the access times but as long as you are careful the approach can work.

One thing that he does that is sorta hinted at in the microdrive books is the possibility of reducing load times at the expense of memory by opening up a bunch of channels to different parts of the same microdrive. So you have a bunch of data in all these different buffers to look at.

I think it would work even better if it was all done in assembly... mmmmm....
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