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French Touch | Fast Loader (running on a real Apple IIc)
A demonstration of our new Fast Loader for Apple IIe.
Data is streamed from the disk while music is playing!
Note: This is a real technical achievement. The Apple II does not have a floppy controller, the disk data decoding is always done by the CPU using a cycle-accurate routine that can't be interrupted (since the floppy disk can't be slowed down!). French Touch found how to go around this limitation to be able to use a CPU interrupt while loading from disk.
Download here http://fr3nch.t0uch.free.fr/FL/FL.html
For Apple IIe (64 KB)/IIc + Mockingboard
Music: BFOX
Captured from the IIc with an RGB Chat Mauve video adapter and an OSSC.
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By A demonstration of our new Fast Loader for Apple IIe.
Data is streamed from the disk while music is playing!
Note: This is a real technical achievement. The Apple II does not have a floppy controller, the disk data decoding is always done by the CPU using a cycle-accurate routine that can't be interrupted (since the floppy disk can't be slowed down!). French Touch found how to go around this limitation to be able to use a CPU interrupt while loading from disk.
Download here http://fr3nch.t0uch.free.fr/FL/FL.html
For Apple IIe (64 KB)/IIc + Mockingboard
Music: BFOX
Captured from the IIc with an RGB Chat Mauve video adapter and an OSSC.